This is a somewhat misleading title to the post as it isn’t really the beginning of anything, except maybe this blog so perhaps it is apt after all.
So what is Big Church’s Little Church then? Well the title is a sort of homage to the Big Brother sister show BBLB and was coined by some of the younger members of the group. The concept, I suppose could be related to the ‘emerging church’ movement. Well it is really only I don’t want us to get pigeonholed as that is one of the things we are trying very hard to avoid.
We meet, currently, on a Sunday morning. Oh I ought to say who ‘we’ are really, well we are in the main disaffected church goers. Predominantly Christian although with a broad range of beliefs under that umberella, we just all got very bored with what was happening in our church on a Sunday morning and decided to do something about it. Hence BCLC, amid all sorts of objections and misgivings we just decided one morning that enough was enough and did something else. Now that in itself is difficult for most people in the United Reformed Church to get to grips with (that’s right we didn’t wait for the church meeting to approve it, how hard are we??) but when we announced that we weren’t going to sing hymns either, they were apoplectic.
I am not going to say much more about it now, basically we meet and discuss a theme that we have chosen for a particular month and each week we look at it through the eyes of the world, through the eyes of God and through our own eyes. This incorporates plenty of thought provoking (and life changing) discussion, some theological study and some creativity.
We have been going for 6 weeks or so now and enjoying it on the whole.
I intend to use this blog to talk about BCLC, it’s impact on myself and the other people involved and how the rest of the church has responded.
One thing I will note now is that the church has recently voted to close down the buildings we are in and move to share with the methodists up the road. So I shall be recounting some of that in here as well.
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