Holy Spirit in the Emerging Culture & Church

By Jason

14 Nov 2005

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Last saturday, nearly 40 of us met in St.Albans, to talk about the Holy Spirit and our emerging culture. After Krispy Kreme Donuts and Coffee, we started the day with a lectio divina reading of the bible, sharing and praying together, led by Marc. Then some input from Matt Rees and I to orient people and get the ball rolling.

Then we had people write questions on post it notes, and put them on the wall. We grouped the notes by affinity (Steve Hollinghurst was a huge help in this process and later discussion facilitation). Then people decided which group of questions they related to the most, and people hived off to talk about them together. After lunch we gathered together again, and got feedback from the three groups, and talked and shared more questions together.

Lastly we spent time sharing how we were experiencing the Holy Spirit in our emerging contexts, and laid hands on and prayed for one another, as people wanted to.

A great day, met a whole bunch of new people, and some old friends. Seems the topic of the Holy Spirit got a few people who are unsure about Emerging church to try the day out.

The nature of the day meant recording was not possible, but I took notes of the feedback sessions, and you can download them, typos and all here:
12Th November
Andy who came on the day also has some reflections here, and Nikki as well, here.

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  1. Comment by brian

    3.28 pm on 14 Nov 2005

    Jason
    thanks for making the notes available! Look forward to taking some time and checking them out.
    peace

  2. Comment by billy calderwood

    6.09 pm on 14 Nov 2005

    Jason,

    Thanks for posting the content of your shared dialouges! As a lead pastor of an “emergent” foursquare church in California, I have been thinking a good deal about the role of the Holy Spirit in the emerging church conversation and expressions. My own personal stories have been filled with the activity of God in ways that closely resembled the book of acts and I am convinced that the dynamic work of the Holy Spirit, whatever language we use to describe it, must be brought into this conversation somehow. This was helpful.

  3. Comment by Pat

    10.38 pm on 14 Nov 2005

    Thanks, Jason. I too am looking forward to digging into your notes.

  4. Comment by andy gr

    8.03 am on 15 Nov 2005

    I was glad to be a part of it; I’ve posted my own reflections.

  5. Comment by Jason Clark

    9.07 am on 15 Nov 2005

    Brian, Billy, Pat, thanks for the feedback.

    Andy great to meet you on the day, and I’ll add link to your blog.

    Cheers, jason

  6. Comment by robbymac

    7.37 pm on 15 Nov 2005

    Thanks again, Jason, from someone who would’ve loved to have been there, but for the ocean that gets in the way!

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