Back at last
Returned after a couple of weeks on the road. Met some interesting people along the way. Including folks from Germany, France, Spain, Belgium, Austria, Switzerland, Croatia, Scotland, Wales, England, Ireland, Italy, Norway, Sweden, South Africa, Romania and Cambodia to name but a few!

On my return, last Monday I was with Claire from Oz, who is doing some similar research on behalf of Forge looking at how to provide continued support and resourcing for those who have been through their church planting program. Then on to see Paul Thaxter at CMS to talk through the UK version of that research: into what is currently out there for emerging church/missional leaders and/or what is actually needed. Then onto see Peter Brierley from Christian Research. Fascinating to hear about all his facts and figures. Interesting side comment that the only 2 groups who isolated themselves from the Challenge 2000 project in the 90's are the only 2 groups who have subsequently continued to steadily plant new churches, Vineyard & NFI.

They too (Christian Research) are attempting to measure the emerging side of things in their current church census. But finding it's organic nature rather difficult to track!! In a way my hope is that if this genuinely is a movement it remains unmeasureable, not only becasue of it's diversity and obstinacy but simply because it is out of control. We don't need something that is controllabe and measureable. We need something which, under the Holy Spirit, is out of our grasp and control; a movement which has a life of it's own. The spontaneous expansion of the church.

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