Reflections on 11/11 Missiology Lecture

Throughout Bishop Cray's lecture on the Fresh Expression Movement, I was reminded of the importance of allowing the Spirit to guide and direct a church planting or renewal movement. I think that the modern church separated itself almost completely from the moving of the Spirit (often by intellectualizing the faith). Thus, many of us in both the mainline and evangelical traditions are left to re-learn how to appropriate the sort of discernment and imagination that is needed to plant churches that are able to meet the needs of the contexts in which they find themselves.