I spent Sunday morning in South Woodham Ferrers, bringing the "Deanery roadshow". My team was excellent, and I think the actual service went well - less so the question time afterwards (my fault, not the team's).
Galleywood has not yet received a deanry roadshow, so I thought I'd let you know what we were saying.
We were saying "life is like a triangle".
Each of us is called to be a full-time Christian in the image of the Trinity. Lik God the Father, we are called to produce, create or nurture things. Like God the Son, we are called to serve. Lik God the Holy Spirit, we are called to communicate and help others communicate. This is the main thing we're called to, 7 days a weeks. We were helping people to see how their jobs do tese things (eg a web designer is both creative and helping people communicate, a full-time mum is nurturing and serving, a receptionist is serving and helping people communicate, and so on). And we were saying that in additon to this calling, full-time Christians will have a aprticular vocation to erve their community and tell of God's love. Brian and Paul - in pharmaceutical sales and a posty respectively - were able tspeak about being a full-tim Christian in their own workplaces.
We were saying "life is like a semi-circle".
Imagine a semi-circle with the flat line at the top. This is the pendulum of life as God intended: 5 or 6 days of work, then (in the Jewish scheme) one day of rest; or to look at it the other way, a day of refreshment on the first day of the week, followed by five or six days of work. Sundays are a time to "fill up" and be equipped, ready to create, serve and tell for the rest of the week. Churches are there to equip people to be full-time Christians, The deanery is there to equip churches to do so.
We were saying "life is like a pentagon".
In Ephesians 4, Paul says that to each one - each one, not just Vicars - have been given five gifts: visionary leadership; te prophetic calling to speak truth to power; evangelism; pastoral care; and teaching/training for all ages. We were trying to share with God's people at South Woodham Ferrers the vision of a church where everyone discovers which o these five gifts (or what combination of the five) they have, and fit with one another in balanced collaborative teams that run the churches that equip the people to live.
Galleywood has not yet received a deanry roadshow, so I thought I'd let you know what we were saying.
We were saying "life is like a triangle".
Each of us is called to be a full-time Christian in the image of the Trinity. Lik God the Father, we are called to produce, create or nurture things. Like God the Son, we are called to serve. Lik God the Holy Spirit, we are called to communicate and help others communicate. This is the main thing we're called to, 7 days a weeks. We were helping people to see how their jobs do tese things (eg a web designer is both creative and helping people communicate, a full-time mum is nurturing and serving, a receptionist is serving and helping people communicate, and so on). And we were saying that in additon to this calling, full-time Christians will have a aprticular vocation to erve their community and tell of God's love. Brian and Paul - in pharmaceutical sales and a posty respectively - were able tspeak about being a full-tim Christian in their own workplaces.
We were saying "life is like a semi-circle".
Imagine a semi-circle with the flat line at the top. This is the pendulum of life as God intended: 5 or 6 days of work, then (in the Jewish scheme) one day of rest; or to look at it the other way, a day of refreshment on the first day of the week, followed by five or six days of work. Sundays are a time to "fill up" and be equipped, ready to create, serve and tell for the rest of the week. Churches are there to equip people to be full-time Christians, The deanery is there to equip churches to do so.
We were saying "life is like a pentagon".
In Ephesians 4, Paul says that to each one - each one, not just Vicars - have been given five gifts: visionary leadership; te prophetic calling to speak truth to power; evangelism; pastoral care; and teaching/training for all ages. We were trying to share with God's people at South Woodham Ferrers the vision of a church where everyone discovers which o these five gifts (or what combination of the five) they have, and fit with one another in balanced collaborative teams that run the churches that equip the people to live.
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