Well only a week since the last post, can't be bad. Life's been a bit crazy lately with a major kitchen refit going on at home. When I've had time to think I've kept coming back to some of those things that I heard and thought while at the New Wine Em Gen conference and back home at Holy Space.

Community is definitely the word of the moment, and I'm still grappling with what authentic community looks like in North London. (And probably will continue to grapple for some time.) I've just read an article about the Church of the Saviour in Washington. Gordon Cosby who founded the Church in 1947 and is well into his 80's some great insights into community, he believes that,

“Our task is to be so deeply and intimately connected with Christ that the world will experience the resurrected Christ – the newness God intends – whenever it touches our corporate life.”

From the earliest days of the church a core assumption has been that the greatest impact on the world comes about by small highly committed and disciplined communities of people focussed on outward mission, inward transformation and loving accountable community.

The challenges of outward mission, inward transformation and accountable community are huge and yet exciting, more to come.....