A sample post from the Redstone Blog

The first link is to the blog entry regarding the "Reveal" survey (and book, video, etc.) from Willow Creek that I mentioned at the Coaches meeting. Out of Ur might be a little harsh (it's easy to be critical of a phenomena like Willow Creek), but what I thought was interesting was the apparent surprise when the notion that getting people involved in activity (read: "program") = deepening discipleship was found not to be particularly true. I'm hoping that would not surprise many of us, but it struck me that the penetration of that American business-consumerism ethic is deep in the culture, in our churches, in us? A real blind spot, it seems to me, especially when I read Bill Hybels' 'confession' -
"We made a mistake. What we should have done when people crossed the line of faith and become Christians, we should have started telling people and teaching people that they have to take responsibility to become 'self feeders.' We should have gotten people, taught people, how to read their bible between service, how to do the spiritual practices much more aggressively on their own."
Self feeders?!? That does not give me warm and fuzzy feelings about helping people understand what it means for the faith community to be the "body of Christ" for the world. I don't remember a parable about being self feeders .
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http://blog.christianitytoday.com/outofur/archives/2007/10/willow_creek_re.html

This second link is about Axis, which was Willow Creek's "seeker" gathering.
I thought it was interesting reading (it's not long), because it illuminates
(softly) just how subversive the task we are undertaking actually is . . .
happy reading, Randi
http://blog.christianitytoday.com/outofur/archives/2006/07/axis_denied_wha.html

Redstone Presbytery has a blog!

Randi Henderson e-mailed a week or so ago to say that Redstone Presbytery had started a Missional Church blog (sorry it took me so long to post it here!).

Here is the link: http://missionalredstone.blogspot.com.

Check it out!