Ghandi

Was just reading Jonny Baker's blog and he has posted a quote from a book he is reading Christ of the Indian Road. Really got me thinking about some of the things Ghandi said and how he saw Christianity being shown to Eastern religions.

What i feel he boils it down to is live what you say you live. If you say you follow Jesus then do it! DO not just go on about it but show people what he means to you.

It has made me think, which is never a bad thing! I spend a lot of time talking about Jesus but do I spend as much time trying to be like him?

Why do we always try to get people to see things our way, why not try to understand them firs them see where our common ground lies? I do not want to hassle someone into faith, I want to walk with them.

Moving Forward

Change is as good as a rest they say! Is it? Change and moving forward can be hard and far from restful.

Moving forward is hard work and can encounter a lot of pain and heartache. Recently I have been talking to different people about change and it just seems that it very rarely feels easy.

But we need change, if we do not have it then we become stagnant, we stop growing, we become like Gold Fish in a bowl. Once they have filled that space they stop growing.

At work we have been talking about Contextualisation, Lil Bill found a great blog by Matt Stone. It has got me thinking and these are very rough thoughts, but how much has our use of words changed over hundreds of years. Everyday our use of language changes. As a Christian where should I stand on adapting my language to better engage people of different world views? Should I adapt it at all?

Hmmmm, what to do?

Cell Retreat

Cell Group, originally uploaded by King Kieran.

This weekend I had my very first Cell retreat. It was a time for us to get to know each other, spend time listening to God, praying and just having fun as a group.

Running up to it was a little stressful/worrying as I was organising a lot of it and I had that worry 'what if people do not enjoy it?'

Well I am pleased to say that that was far from the truth. we all had a great time. and God spoke so much to us as a group and so much as an invidual. I came away feeling uplifted and that my faith had deepened.

It was the first retreat that I have ever chosen to go to. Working for LCET retreat becomes part of your life but it is not something that you choose. Don't get me wrong, I love retreats but there was something freeing about chosing to go on this one, with a whole group that I have chosen to spend time with.

All in all it was a huge sucess, the thing we are left with is where next as a group?