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Check out how much this little pup to the right is enjoying Spring.
Just like Spring marks a nice transition from winter into summer, the church in light of our context needs to help people move through transitions and experience transformation.
Diana Butler Bass in her book Christianity for the Rest of Us, gives us a great mental framework to work with as far as the type of transitions we need to see happen more often in the church.
Radical Individualism: Wanders to Pilgrims
Aimlessness: Busyness to Vocation
Consumption: Consumers to Practitioners
Fragmentation: Individuals to Community
Forgetfulness: Amnesia to Memory
(Bass 2006:225ff)
So which transitions did you identify with, or in light of your context, which transitions would you add?
Keywords: calling, community, embodying, emerging church, missional church, sacred text, walk with God
