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Jesus in the City
The 2nd UK Urban Mission Congress
"Community Conflict and Celebration"
Belfast, 26-30 September 1998
Starting where we are
The work shop:
- shares some pictures of life and church in south east Brazil as a means of encouraging people to recognise that our context is not the only context (or perhaps the best context) for viewing the world society, and that our models of church are not the only models.
- shares some pictures of Belishill, Lanarkshire as a first world place living with third world questions of life and faith.
- shares the process of action and reflection learned from the third world, and how this process has enabled (and empowered) a clearer view of local context and a more appropriate model of church.
- shares the words of some "thinkers and theologians" from Brazil to encourage us to continue thinking and theologising in a different way. Summary Comments Monday 28th
The group liked the words of Milton Schwantes
"The kingdom of God is like grass:- the problem is that the church wants to plant trees."
From this we did not want to say that the big never happened, but that the small really mattered.
The group made a number of comments/questions
- "What is Church really?"
- "There is a need to keep holding on."
- "This is not them and us, but about us."
- "There is a need to live in our place" - to be there.
- "We didn't do this [the Neighbourhood Centre] for other people - we did it for ourselves"
- Irene, You have done a wonderful job:- you have shared a new vision of Glasgow in Word and Deed. Thanks
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