Hi, my name is Leanne and this blog is huge step in using modern communication for me!
I am a wife, mother of 3 young adult children, grandmother, and expecting grandmother in Dec. 08. I love quilting and different types of embroidery, play badmington, and have a passion for old cars. We have a 1926 & 1928 Essex and a 1950 Vauxhall.
I come from country SA, where we had a business for 23 years. I am part of Kiononia Faith Community, of the Uniting Chruch Synod SA.
I am a wife, mother of 3 young adult children, grandmother, and expecting grandmother in Dec. 08. I love quilting and different types of embroidery, play badmington, and have a passion for old cars. We have a 1926 & 1928 Essex and a 1950 Vauxhall.
I come from country SA, where we had a business for 23 years. I am part of Kiononia Faith Community, of the Uniting Chruch Synod SA.
I have called my blog, Emerging Journey as it reflects my journey. I come from country SA, where we had a business for 23 years. During that time the Lord called me to study, then to apply for ministry. I have been acepted as a Lay Pastor and am going into ministry, while still studying for a Bth in Theology at Tabor College Adelaide. The journey which has been emerging is shaping me in a whole new and wonderful way. Journeying with the Lord never leaves us the same. We grow as we learn and try new ways of doing things. New ways of thinking about things.
Which is again happened in the course I am currently studing, "The Living Text" with Steve Taylor, from NZ, at Tabor College, Adelaide, Thank you Steve.
I am excited about the course contents and the new ways of approching the text which open it up in a whole new way. I have often wondered why the Lord called me into ministry. And I still don have the answer, accept that this is the era in which He planed for me to be born in. I have had unique experiences which have shaped me, and battered me! I have used gifts and talents is other areas of my life, and am coming to realise that these are not just for 'over there' so to speak, but can be used and are relevent to living the text today. So as God is a creative God, weaving and mixing colours together like we often wouldn't even consider; creating wonderful master pieces, I feel that that is just what he is trying to do with the church today. Opening our eyes to new ways - exciting ways of interacting with His Word, in His world of which we are apart of. This course is opening up a world within me which I had put asside and even left behind. Now I am challenged to let that area come out and come a live. Oh, it feels scarry! yet exciting at the same time! I feel that I am coming alive in a new way!
The challenge is... to step out of our comfort zone and trust, and dare to make mistakes. For it is only is stepping out and allowing ourselves to make mistakes that God can work.
I am excited about the course contents and the new ways of approching the text which open it up in a whole new way. I have often wondered why the Lord called me into ministry. And I still don have the answer, accept that this is the era in which He planed for me to be born in. I have had unique experiences which have shaped me, and battered me! I have used gifts and talents is other areas of my life, and am coming to realise that these are not just for 'over there' so to speak, but can be used and are relevent to living the text today. So as God is a creative God, weaving and mixing colours together like we often wouldn't even consider; creating wonderful master pieces, I feel that that is just what he is trying to do with the church today. Opening our eyes to new ways - exciting ways of interacting with His Word, in His world of which we are apart of. This course is opening up a world within me which I had put asside and even left behind. Now I am challenged to let that area come out and come a live. Oh, it feels scarry! yet exciting at the same time! I feel that I am coming alive in a new way!
The challenge is... to step out of our comfort zone and trust, and dare to make mistakes. For it is only is stepping out and allowing ourselves to make mistakes that God can work.
1 comment:
Dear Leanne,
LIke many of us,you have been dissatisfied, want change, but not knowing just where to start. It was an intense week, but I feel you have more idea of how to go about introducing change than you did at the beginning.
I find it interesting that several of us have had a Methodist pbackground, that made us hesitant about how far we could go in change as we wanted to remain true to scripture. You sound as though the week helped you in this regard. i know it helped me with the same concerns.fro Steve placed the Bible so firmly in the centre, and without moving it challenged us to make our box bigger, rahter than than change our centre. I found both christine McSpadden and William Stacy Johnson helpful here, expecially what Johnson had to say about deconstruction. It certainly made me rethink what I had heard about deconstruction and the Bible.
Postmoders have little time for stillness, but seek movement and experience. However, by arouding thier imagination they can be held still long enough to wonder and ponder as they enter into the Biblical story. We all found that in Godly Play as Steve led us that morning. It also come through clearly in Berryman's article in our reader. It weill mean hard work and carful preparation and presentation, but it holds promie as one method to help the Bible come alive so that people can enter into it and experience it for themselves.
God bless. I am excited at the possibilities ahead as we put into practice the things we learned together. I hope you are too.
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