Reflecting on our Rule: Week 18
The Cell
It is always much more difficult
to sing
when the audience
has turned its back
Calvin Miller
Rule Reflections
Reflecting on our Rule: Week 17
We are to be a sign of vulnerability,
a sign of availability,
wherever we are,
as a scattered and dispersed Community
Andy Raine
Reflecting on our Rule: Week 16
A Rule offers creative boundaries within which
God’s loving presence can be recognised and celebrated.
It does not prescribe, but invite;
it does not force but guide;
it does not threaten but warn;
it does not instil fear but points to love.
In this it is a call to freedom: freedom to love.
Henri Nouwen
Reflecting on our Rule: Week 15
The Rule
is a lens through which
we can interpret life
as we experience it
Reflecting on our Rule: Week 14
The Rule
is a way of living out
our salvation together
Reflecting on our Rule: Week 13
We embrace the challenge to live as CHURCH WITHOUT WALLS, living openly amongst unbelievers and other believers in a way that the life of God in ours can be seen, challenged or questioned
Reflecting on our Rule: Week 12
We embrace the responsibility
of taking the HERETICAL IMPERATIVE
by making RELATIONSHIPS the priority
and not reputation
Reflecting on our Rule: Week 11
We embrace the responsibility
of taking the HERETICAL IMPERATIVE
by SPEAKING OUT when necessary
or ASKING AWKWARD QUESTIONS
that will often upset the status quo
Reflecting on our Rule: Week 10
We embrace the vulnerability of being TEACHABLE
expressed in a willingness to be
ACOUNTABLE TO OTHERS
in ordering our ways and our heart
in order to effect change
Reflecting on our Rule: Week 09
We embrace the vulnerability
of being TEACHABLE
expressed in an exposure to SCRIPTURE