I have had a much needed day at home today catching up on a mass of emails as well as adding some finishing touches to a couple of minor assignments.

Yesterday I spent a good time with Bishop Brian, the Bishop of Tonbridge, to think about what might happen with me as a pioneer minister beyond ordination. It was an interesting conversation and I was very pleased with what we spoke about – watch this space!

Bishop Brian posed an interesting question to me to think through. It was a question of mission and worship and he asked me how, in a pioneering sense, do we bring worship ad mission together. How, in fact, can we (or even, is it possible to) to make our worship missionally and our mission worshipful?

It’s a question worth considering, and he even lent me this book to delve into to start to answer my questions around this and community – so I’m now keen to get on with SEITE assignments and finish so I can read something I want to again.

The really funny thing is – and I have only just realised this a few seconds ago as I look for a link to the book on Amazon – is that this is Bishop Brians’s own book. When he said this was ‘my book’ I assumed he meant his personal copy … but it seems he is the actual author. The bishop told me this and I made no response or comment at all!!! It’s not that I never looked impressed, I didn’t even really look at the bbok at all unti I got home! Good job I’m not in this for promotion! As it is I may need to start looking for another diocese!!!

so … worshipful mission, missional worship hmmmmmm maybe I shall start to read the book and make some positive comments quick!