Had a really great weekend last week with Church Planting Initiative http://www.cpi-britain .org/cpi
We felt so loved and encouraged and ready to come back to work this week. Church Planting is often a lonely place because the main stream church doesn't often understand you. Some Christians think we are just going out on whim or we are starting again because we are just not getting 'real church!' Church planting is a calling and unless you have the right tools to do it, it will be an impossible task. This is why we needed to get alongside other Church Planters who are in the same boat. They understand and they can talk on the same wavelength. We have that co-operate sense that God is doing a new thing with his church.We have a sense that we are to be different to the Church in its decline in the 21st Century, and we have a sense that God's church is the Hope of the World!!
I met people who understood the loneliness and understood the frustration we face. One of my biggest frustration is Christians and this causes me much pain when I am honest, and it was good to share honestly this weekend. Over the years God has placed it deeply on my heart to define the difference between Christianity and Christian culture and that was also strongly seen when talking with other Church Planters. I am hoping to finish my book all about this issue one day!!
Other blessings were it was all free and tea and coffee were on tap all day long :) CPI also had a great effect on our kids who were integrated and felt at home straight away. The conference also had a totally international feel with such diversity and yet unity. It never came into the conversation what flavour of church we were or what our theological tendencies were. YAHAY!!
What a lovely bunch of treasures we are getting to know in CPI - saints and ambassadors for Christ in a country that is seeing a new thing happening with God's church if only we catch the wind and surf the wave that God is sending.
Thank God for CPI XXX
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