celebrating cultivation
Posted by Paul | Filed under uncategorised
In the same vein as the last post, here is a quote from Andy Crouch (see Cultivating Where We’re Planted)
In their book Church on Sunday, Work on Monday Laura Nash and Scotty McLennan tell the story of the woman who litigated the clean up of the terribly polluted Boston Harbor for the Environmental Protection Association—one of the major environmental breakthroughs of the twenty-first century. She was a member of an evangelical church, and the only time she was ever recognized from the front of this church was the year that she taught second grade Sunday school. Obviously we should celebrate our Sunday school teachers, but when one of our members acting out of vocation leads in such a tremendous restoration of God’s creation, why wouldn’t we celebrate that, too? And if our churches celebrated that more there would be a less of a sense of saying “yes” to the one, “no” to the other.Celebrating what people are doing out beyond church walls feels like a risk for pastors, but I think that fear is unfounded.
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