Really enjoying the liitle bits of life - playin with kids, eating a cooked breakfast, watching a movie, sleeping in, bank holidays - I'm still semi in holiday mode - got some good stuff coming up this term -
1. one of my best friends Mark Rylands becoming a bishop and leaving NIGHTCHURCH so gonna miss him loads but it means I need to step up a bit - well I am 40 - it's about time !! We're gonna spend autumn developing as a community and hopefully me get some release to go and start more small , simple church communities as part of NIGHTCHURCH family
2. Got a great new leader of Methodism in sw called Pete Pillinger - my new line manager so looking forward to many things in that area - a new site I'm launching called www.trainingtuesdays.net ; loads of training experiences and more learning communities !
3. Still exploring piling into a big house with a load of friends - watch this space...
4. Reading, learning and unlearning lots ..
Magnificent
Oh, oh, magnificent
I was born, I was born
To be with you in this space and time
After that and ever after
I haven't had a clue only to break rhyme
This foolishness can leave a heart black and blue, oh, oh
Only love, only love can leave such a mark
But only love, only love can heal such a scar
I was born, I was born to sing for you
I didn't have a choice but to lift you up
And sing whatever song you wanted me to
I give you back my voice from the womb
My first cry, it was a joyful noise, oh, oh
Only love, only love can leave such a mark
But only love, only love can heal such a scar
Justified, till we die you and I will magnify, oh, oh
Magnificent, magnificent, oh, oh
Only love, only love can leave such a mark
But only love, only love unites our hearts
Justified, till we die you and I will magnify, oh, oh
Magnificent, magnificent, magnificent
Going to meet some folks at life crossroads - I love working with these sort of folks, past peer pressure, just wanna do something great with the rest of their lives
... Then off to John Carnes goodbye - a great spiritual father retiring tonight..
Peace . Steve
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Reading this book again - and want so much to launch into orbit ! But the gravity of Christian consumerism, comfort, convenience is so difficult to break free from... It does my head in - I'm spending some time exploring ways to launch and get speed up to get away... Here's some ideas for me and my tribe ... I'll add more as we go on ...
1. Big hospitality, missional and training house for my tribe and about 10 others ...
2. Share more stuff - put my stuff online for folks to borrow ...
3. Give away all my money to the poor and see what happens ???
4. Give away stuff - most of it - declutter the Jesus way .
5. Become a Veggie to detach myself from the oppressive and injust meat industry.
6. More to follow ...
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Oh I do like to be beside the seaside ...
It was 20 years ago today that I wondered out on a lonely beach in west Scotland leaving in my wake a Christian conference of about 5000 people ... As I wondered out along the vast expanse of sand I prayed about the possibility of marrying a fine lass I'd been thinking of ; I must have been half a mile out as I turned and gazed back at the 'holiday camp' ... A lone figure was walking onto the beach - it happened to be the person I was chatting to God about .. out of the 5000 it was her. Married now nearly 17 years - my wife, Larissa .