The blog has been quiet as it has been a busy few days.
On Monday morning we met to talk more about Hope 08 in Gillingham. Plans are going well and people are catching the vision that it can be about about small individual acts of transformation.
On Monday evening I met the core team of Harvest, where I will be on placement for the ext few weeks. It was a good group of people, good food and good discussion without avoiding difficult issues. I’m joining them again on Sunday for worship and then hope to be interviewing and chatting with a view people and learning mor of what they think about the Holy Spirit and evangelism in their setting.

On Tuesday I made the short trip to Westminster to join in the first meeting of the learning network for Fresh Expressions from a catholic and contemplative tradition. It was good to meet up with these people and I hope this is going to be a real support where we can share stories and ask questions in the future.

On Wednesday I caught up with Lyndsay from Chislehurst YFC. It was just great to hear of her plans and I look forward to seeing them become a reality. During the evening I attended the Diocesan Advisory Council for Mission in Borough Green. It’s a privilege, too, to meet up with these people who are sold out on mission.

As I drove home after the meeting I reflected on the various worlds that I have the privilege to sit in. Catholic/contemplative one day, Pentecotsal/Charismatic another, Evangelical on still other occasions and so on … and so on.

Personally I think it is great to be able to meet with so many different groups because as do I think I experience different aspects of God in different ways as I listen and learn from those I am with. It is already interesting for me personally to notice that I do not seem to fit entirely in any of these camps. Try as I might I can’t seem to put a protective box label around me. I can and do enjoy and relate to certain aspects from each tradition, and I believe it is possible to learn from all traditions in an attempt to be authentic in worship, mission and lifestyle.

It’s this ‘holding in a healthy tension’ that the Anglican church has been quite good at in the past.