lyndes's blog

Spirituality & economics are inter-connected. In an individualistic & consumeristic culture & in a world where economic injustice is rife, we are committed to finding ways of living simply, sharing generously, caring for creation, & working for justice.
 

Re-imagining Church for 21st Century South Africa – a somewhat presumptuous title for an article. But I beg your indulgence in my presumption. What makes this article even more presumptuous is that based on some of my thought patterns over the past few years, I would not have imagined myself writing on the church in the 21st Century. My imagination of what church can be like had caused me to be somewhat disenchanted about what I saw church to be like.

I became a follower of Jesus 40 years ago. Much of my early growth in faith was nurtured by the Student Christian Association, and this may well have influenced me to a marked degree in terms of a passion I have which has been with me for as far back as I can recollect - the unity of the church, and the desire to express it on a practical level.

As I reflect back on the past 40 years, various passages and verses from the Bible have never been far from my daily walk and what I understand to be God's desire for his church. Some of these are;