The often excellent blog Out of Ur has a series running on the Shift Conference at Willow Creek. The latest post is about Reveal, the recent study which researched 200 churches and which is changing the nature of things at Willow Creek. Some of the changes make you wonder just what they have been doing for years…and what have those churches been following who have sought to model themselves on Willow. But you have to applaud the honesty and integrity.

Anyway, the post on Reveal is fascinating and worth reading. Find it here.

i think i read somewhere that there are 40,000 new blogs published every month. no doubt there are many abandoned each month too, but it still amounts to a whole lot of people who believe that they have something to say which others need to/want to/should read. well here’s another one. we have met now for nearly three years, once a month on a saturday morning to eat a hearty breakfast then to read the bible together. our intent is to try and make some sense of faith in the context of our variety of life experience.

most of us are married, but not all. between us we have 15 kids (i think) from nineteen years old down to nearly three. we work in a variety of jobs, one is an architect, two work in IT, one in the printing industry, one is a teacher, one in youth ministry and one in urban ministry. we are all members of the same church; where some of us have official leadership responsibility, but others are just pew fodder, (in the best sense of the word of course).

we met last saturday (early on the morning of ireland’s glorious six nations rugby victory over england) to talk about some next steps for us. one outcome is this blog as we attempt to find ways of continuing our discussions and reflections outside of the regular monthly encounters. we all know more than we know, and one way of uncovering what we know is by saying it out or writing it out, hence the blog.

so let’s see where it goes….