And now, the end is near…

Well they say that all good things must come to an end and it is with some sadness that I must end my BCLC blog.

“But why”, I hear you all plead, “when it means so much to us all, are you stopping it? How will we know what to do with our own little emerging corner of the church”…..

The good news is I have been offered a very lucrative book deal to turn these pages into something of a manual (a bible if you like) on how to set up an emerging church….

Chapter 1, page 1 - “Put this book down and go out and see what is going on have a look at what resources you’ve got and try to work out where you fit.”

The End

Seriously, I haven’t been offered any such deal (yet). No the reason why this must end is because we met yesterday and decided that BCLC was in need of a change. One of the things that will change is the name, hence we will need a new ’space’ in the ether to let people know what is going on with us. Hopefully this will be less a personal rant from yours truly and more the efforts of the group or a sub-set of the group.

So what else is changing and why are we even thinking of altering something that is obviously still working well? Good questions. To deal with the second one first. The answer is that nothing ever stays the same - “He not busy being born is busy dying” - if we were to rest on our laurels, to think that we had this thing called life sussed out then we might as well pack up now So we are “busy being born”.

The major change is that we are seeking more wholeness and balance in what we do. At the moment, if you happen to turn up on any given week you might be expected to be creative about something that you have not even thought about. Or alternatively you might be want to seek some quiet contemplative time about a theme and have turned up when we are in discussive mode. So we have decided to use the whole of the building each week and offer a space to do all these things whenever you want to. The hope is that people will take the theme on and work with it in their lives throughout the week then respond in what they deem the most appropriate fashion on a Sunday morning. This could be one of 4 ways:

1. Conversational - you might want to chew the fat (and a bagel) with other people.

2. Contemplative - a quiet space to look inside yourself.

3. Creative - make something, a poem, a painting, a film, a musical - anything you want,

4. Conventional - you may just want to sing a few traditional hymns and be talked at for 20 minutes

As you can see this is all inclusive. We will start as we have been doing already, with breakfast, then people will go where they please for the next hour or so then return together for further fellowship before departing into the world.

So good bye Big Church’s Little Church, Hello ________________??

The very last post will be the one where I tell you how to pick up the new stuff.

Thanks to everyone who has read this or commented, it’s been a blast. Sorry to anyone I have upset, I only meant to a bit.