tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9901815.post1608310246190950902..comments2023-06-04T14:47:02.324+01:00Comments on a sideways glance: Getting on the hamster wheelsimonhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13470335172330595542noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9901815.post-35372723645043044532009-09-06T22:33:56.458+01:002009-09-06T22:33:56.458+01:00Having returned to TLS after a short 'break...Having returned to TLS after a short 'break'- or episode- I sensed some of these changes even this evening.<br /><br />As a hopeless 'emergent', I enjoyed the mixture of canned music and conversation; and the fact that- crucially- the questions posed did not have proscribed answers, revealed at the end.<br /><br />Perhaps your message on the 'ancient ways' revealed at crossroads was equally applicable, tonight, to the TLS itself... as well as we pew-dwellers. Or that's my intuitive take on it, anyway.Bennoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9901815.post-16794814757693077452009-09-02T14:54:01.857+01:002009-09-02T14:54:01.857+01:00You're not the first person to suggest that an...You're not the first person to suggest that and who knows, we might just do it as part of this new way of engaging with what we're supposed to be here for.<br /><br />Thanks for your continuing contribution to the conversationsimonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13470335172330595542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9901815.post-9172852024108243692009-09-02T14:44:43.040+01:002009-09-02T14:44:43.040+01:00What a refreshing post!
I guess it won't surp...What a refreshing post!<br /><br />I guess it won't surprise you, as your intermittent interlocuter, that there is a lot happening in the world that sermons won't solve.<br /><br />Now I'm not a vicar, and apart from having a visceral aversion to Graham Kendrick songs, I reckon that you could do a lot worse than doing that old fashioned thing of taking the good news message out to people who haven't heard it.<br /><br />If you can get a little of that "still small voice of calm" into a Bromley that's full of shopping, X Factor, materialism, consumerism and short-termism, I reckon you'd be onto a winner.<br /><br />Maybe you could be radical. Shorten your Sunday evening service to a half-hour "off load" for the congregation and then get out and try to make non-believers lives a little bit better.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com