one of the most wonderful blessings in recent years for sherry and me has been to meet Simon Carey Holt. he is a professor at a baptist seminary in Melbourne, Australia. his recent book, "God next door" is simply one of the most compelling and gracious texts we have read on mission and 'everyday spirituality'. we cannot more highly recommend it to you.
Simon has a new blog/web address... check it out here.
on a recent post one of Simon's readers (Geoff B) quotes theologian Jurgen Moltmann. i thought this was a beautiful distillation of what we are fumbling toward in Lexington.
"participation [in the Christian faith and life] means in the first place to eat, to drink, to live in common. It begins in the "belly" not in the head. One must savour it before one can speak about it... this happens best through [local] communities and groups which live intensely with the gospel and their neighbours"
(Moltmann, Jürgen. The Open Church : Invitation to a Messianic Lifestyle. London: SCM Press, 1978.)
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