Believe Differently

Some people commented to me - not via the site which is a bit of a shame – that the blogs I linked in my post “What to do about church” were a little on the negative. I have to agree, but never-the-less, this meme - initated by Bill Kinnon of Achievable Ends - has created quite a stir in the blogosphere – I am so down with the language of this new subculture I have joined! Today though, I have come across a post by Brother Maynard of subversiveinfluence.com which seems to draw the conversation to a close and has a whole different flavour to it. It also contains a number of links to individuals who have taken part in the conversation which are worth following.

Brother Maynard writes:

This post is offered as a sequel to Bill Kinnon’s The People formerly known as The Congregation, which I believe has genuinely caught the wind of the Spirit, evidenced by all the conversation which it has sparked. This post is my proposal for a “capstone” to the conversation, a way of summarizing and expressing what’s going on in the conversation, and where I believe it is going. My hope is that it will frame the conversation and point to a healthy direction for its continuation. At this moment, I believe I can say that there is talk of a project to gather it up for presentation as a distinct corpus… and I would hope to see it continue in that fashion. Read the rest of Brother Maynard’s post entitled “The Dream of the Former” »