upcoming small group conversation

[bev]

A faith community

Sept. 18th-- 6:30 PM --1601 S. Peace Haven Road, Clemmons (2 miles
past the Y)

There are many great faith communities in Winston-Salem that reach
many different facets of our community. However, for some of us, we
have not found a place in the traditional or contemporary church that
fits. Those of us who have been a part of this dialogue have been
called emerging or even the emergent church. These terms themselves
are emerging and though we do not care to define them, we do offer a
paraphrase of Ian Mobsby's as one way of seeing this people
movement…..

"We seek, "forms of church that are not restrained by institutional
expectations...Use of the key word: "and". Whereas the heady
polarities of our day seek to divide us into an either-or camp, the
mark of the emerging church will be its emphasis on both-and. For
generations we have divided ourselves into camps: Protestants and
Catholics, high church and low, clergy and laity, social activists and
personal piety, liberals and conservatives, sacred and secular,
instructional and underground. We hope to bring together the most
helpful of the old and best of the new, blending the dynamic of a
personal gospel with the compassion of social concern. We hope for a
ministry being expressed by a whole people, wherein the distinction
between clergy and laity will be that of function, not of status or
hierarchical division. With due emphasis will be placed on both
theological rootage and contemporary experience, on celebration in
worship and involvement in social concerns, on faith and feeling,
reason and prayer, conversion and continuity, the personal and the
conceptual."

If you are interested in being a part of the conversation come, learn
more about what the emergent faith community of Winston-Salem is
thinking, and bring your ideas because we want to hear them.

[bev]

questions, suggestions, etc. about the sept. 18 get together ....
hatcher...@gmail.com/ pete...@gmail.com /ljo...@cbfnc.org