Another fascinating talk we heard last week was from Dr Greta Vosper, minister of West Hills Uniting church in Toronto. Her extreme progessive position has led her denomination to resolve that she must leave her congregation.
But what interested me was one aspect of Greta's description of her congregation's Sunday mornings. They consider issues that are real for the congregation. They draw freely on other inspiration than merely the Bible. And when business decisions come along they make them on the spot. There is no church meeting nor council so no group of individuals in assigned responsibility to make decsions on behalf of the whole community.
It interested me immediaely. Here was a working model of the Ecclesion Church that I proposed 25 years ago for small congregations. I reckoned the contemporary church should devote its only gathering time in the week to elements of worship, education, fellowship and doing necessary business. I'd still be very comfortable in that kind of gathering.
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