Gibbs and Bolger: Chapter 6
I think that the Evangelizing practices of our church today have to be reconsidered. I'm not telling that they are not good at all, but I see a lot of "agendas" and "targeting" such as the one talked about in the book. We should question ourselves in the way we address people, is our goal to bring souls to the church or is our goal to build genuine relationship that embody the love and grace of Christ. Do we want to do apologetic through our discourses and good words or through the way we live and welcome the outcast?
Gibbs and Bolger: Chapter 7
I think that the Evangelizing practices of our church today have to be reconsidered. I'm not telling that they are not good at all, but I see a lot of "agendas" and "targeting" such as the one talked about in the book. We should question ourselves in the way we address people, is our goal to bring souls to the church or is our goal to build genuine relationship that embody the love and grace of Christ. Do we want to do apologetic through our discourses and good words or through the way we live and welcome the outcast?
Gibbs and Bolger: Chapter 7
More than welcoming the other (the non-christian, the marginalized, the poor,...) the church has to be a place were people are takend care of, a place where people can experience hospitality. I see in many churches things called "welcoming team" or a welcom booth... The entire body of the church should be practicing hospitality to new-comers, the entire body should be practicing hospitality to people outside the church. And that hospitality should be in fact primarely turned toward the outside of the church, with no other goal than to spread the love of God.
Gibbs and Bolger: Chapter 8
Introducing more participation in the modern church is a big challenge. People are so used to come and be spectators that it's gonna ask them to "be violent to themselves" to come out of the state of consumer/spectator. I think that a participative frame can be introduced little by little by opening the space more and more for everyone to be part of the leadership. Just an example is the configuration of the room, why not going from a 'everything directed to one pulpit' configuration to a more inclusive, circle configuration? That would be just a first step of course
Gibbs and Bolger: Chapter 9
It is interesting to read this chapter today because no later than last night I was talking with my pastor back home on the phone and he was asking me if I would be willing to participate and think about a other way to do the service. And I was sharing that idea of doing a service in which everybody would reflect about a passage or a subject and would take a week to produce a piece of art related to it. The service in itself would then just be everyone sharing their piece of art and explaining it to the others. I think that creativity has to be brought back in Church and worship.
Gibbs and Bolger: Chapter 8
Introducing more participation in the modern church is a big challenge. People are so used to come and be spectators that it's gonna ask them to "be violent to themselves" to come out of the state of consumer/spectator. I think that a participative frame can be introduced little by little by opening the space more and more for everyone to be part of the leadership. Just an example is the configuration of the room, why not going from a 'everything directed to one pulpit' configuration to a more inclusive, circle configuration? That would be just a first step of course
Gibbs and Bolger: Chapter 9
It is interesting to read this chapter today because no later than last night I was talking with my pastor back home on the phone and he was asking me if I would be willing to participate and think about a other way to do the service. And I was sharing that idea of doing a service in which everybody would reflect about a passage or a subject and would take a week to produce a piece of art related to it. The service in itself would then just be everyone sharing their piece of art and explaining it to the others. I think that creativity has to be brought back in Church and worship.
Stokes Chapter 1:
This first chapter is really technical about how to lead a media or cultural research. The author brings us through different steps and teaches us how to choose a subject, how to do researches, how to study our subject and how to plan things. To be honest I don’t see how this can talk to my church. This book is really academic and I don’t think that that kind of study is done in church. Maybe the Church can benefit from such studies but they are not the ones that are going to do them.
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