Tuesday, July 13, 2004

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...... been to a Greenbelt Management Group tonight - the people who really put the festival together - the best experience in my life
see
www.greenbelt.org.uk

I first went to GB when I was working in the east end of London - leading a project working with youth Gangs ........ the highest crime rate in the country ...... the worst schools ..... worst housing ............ and I was battered. I hit a time in my life when my Christian faith, hot gospel, up front ten years of experience MENT NOTHING and I crumbled and had to learn that there was a difference between
me
and
we
................. I had to change to a team approuch rather than the 'I am the leader' type.

Greenbelt met me where I was
battered
thin theology
charismatic leader
evangelical
know it all
black and white
I had qualities too ........... but at the time I needed a button to refresh the faith.

I became a radical Christian. I guess other labels could be used. I became a 'doing theology' Christian. Massive still as a passionate Christian - but wanting to step outside the faith I was converted into - to a contextualized one - a faith worked out in the flesh.

I have been on that road since - the road less travelled - the road where I want to be unsettled, uncertain, incomplete, restless, yearning, becoming, ....................

Greenbelt does something to the fresh faith glands and I am pleased/come yearning for more ...............

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