20th June 2009

Facilitator: Ansie

It is not a Typo, this weeks topic has been moved to next week as the discussion grew organically from the, “what would you like to share” part of the evening.

Jp and Rita shared the idea of the opportunity of doing the LAMP training, something to hopefully look forward to.

Grant shared his impression of the modern Chinese belief system which he encountered during his recent trip to Beijing, that what he encountered was not as much a saturation of Buddhism as he was expecting but rather atheism combined with a deep rooted superstition.

Marlene updated us as to her walk, what media village is and what she’s expecting her scheduling to look like; effectively that she’ll only have two weeks between her training with media village and the trip to India.

Marc and Paulien shared their impressions of the Feet training which they are in the process of completing, along with Grant and Suzanna. Feet is a training and church planting movement which instigates and encourages church growth by a radical grassroots methodology/strategy. Discouraging preaching and teaching in order to diminish the “toxic” teaching found in modern established churches

This is when the topic changed...

Questions around radical nature of the training caused an amount of discussion. Fully embracing it would require a lot of unlearning of the institutionalized church, would this be throwing out the baby with the bathwater, or a clean sweep? does limiting the preaching and teaching limit extended learning; Simpler better?

As with so many fellowship discussions, we attempt to evaluate the strategic elements of the idea/training or movement being brought to the group. It would need to be something we return to as a topic, as those doing the training still need to complete the training, but a conclusion was reached that it needs to be assessed against the directives of the Church(the people/body, not the institution), and not only on a personal reaction level. Specifically brought to light is the element of discipleship, a directive. What does it mean to disciple?

This topic will most likely be carried over to next week as well.