I’ve also started on Felicity Dale’s ‘An Army of Ordinary People’. I’ve only read the first two chapters, but it looks like being a great book already. It opens with Hank’s story. Hank is a man who used to say very little, but who dared to try starting a very simple church with some people he knew. Those people told others about their experiences, and Hank’s family got wind of it too, and Hank just kept on starting churches!
The second story is Tony and Felicity’s. It is a little more complicated than Hank’s, but again tells of people struggling with God and what he is doing, and really stumbling into something old but new.
These first two chapters were very encouraging – not because they provide methods, or try to say “It’s easy, go ahead”, but because the stories are about the sort of people we all know. If they can do it, so can we! (With a little help from God 😉 , but that’s what the others needed too.)
Day: September 10, 2005
‘Revolution’ part 1
I’ve started reading George Barna’s upcoming book ‘Revolution’, which I picked up at the house church conference last weekend. It’s a light read, but I’ve only had time to get through to chapter 4; so far, it has been mostly introduction to the topic. I think he is painting a rather rosy picture of what is going on, at least at an individual level; he hasn’t mentioned the uncertainty, the questioning, or the weakness, and little of the struggles involved. I consider myself to be one of the Revolutionaries he is talking about, and certainly experience these things. As a statistician, Barna is viewing the picture from a global level, which may well look different.
Some quotes from the book: Continue reading “‘Revolution’ part 1”
The Garden of our God
I spent the afternoon in The Garden of Our God (OK, officially called ‘of the Gods’…), taking lots of photos. It was a perfect day – blue sky, hot, with a pleasant wind.
Mike spent the day with his daughter, Sarah, at a hot rod show. They are both fans of custom cars, and Sarah took lots of photos, too.