At the beginning of the week, I was in Cambridge with a bunch of other church leaders. We are talking together about forming a network, that recognises our friendships over the years, and formalises a partnership and learning together for the future.
Billy Kennedy and Roger Ellis have invited a few people to meet over the last couple of years, and this is set to continue 3 times a year, to develop friendships, learn together, and pray.
It was an inspiring time; especially a tour of Cambridge led by Ranald Macauley from Christian Heritage, who took us around some of the colleges of Cambridge, where we learnt of how Christians had been motivated by their faith to get involved in politics, science, and arts to bring about massive change in the country at the time. The most well known for most of us would be William Wilberforce who was involved in the movement to abolish slavery.
Inspiring stuff; rather daunting too. Left me with some questions: the church seems so often way behind in the major issues of our day. For example we only now seem to be taking seriously the environmental issue. How can we be at the forefront of bringing change to our society? How can we value those, in our churches, who are already working to bring change in their 9 to 5 jobs, but so often aren’t recognised as those on “front line mission”?
Good to be with friends too … had a great catch up with Lynn Swart.
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