Last night I experienced a myriad of emotions as I left my house to travel to the Thursday night Curry Club at Wetherspoons. For a change I was not nervous or fearful of my reception of crossing the threshold; for this night I was going to meet with people who want to re-imaginge church. This night I was meeting people who had responded to an email and blog that I wrote earlier in the year which you can read here. (Then, as with now, if you know anyone this may be appropriate for please pass it to them).

My emotions tonight were a mixture of excitement, disbelief, hope rooted in a passion to serve.

Tonight 4 of us met, we chatted, we ate, we laughed, we asked questions, we shared views, we tried to imagine, we dreamed dreams.

Tonight was not church. Tonight was about listening, dreaming, respecting and was maybe even a very small step towards the development of community. The gathering tonight may develop further, or may end. I’m pretty certain we will talk more.

Tonight we were engaging with each other, with things of God and we were doing this in the real world and it was good. I think we all experienced something of God as we chatted in a pretty normal way in a pretty normal pub and looked, errr pretty normal!

If God takes this and weaves it into something that will be great and I’d love to be part of that, if God doesn’t that takes nothing away from this evening – God was still there joining that discussion. God is in the dream.