The Practicing Church
A video from The Practicing Church
Read also the disorganized church in Wednesday's Lead
More about The Practicing Church below
About The Practicing Church:
After centuries of overload the beliefs breaker has flipped off and is no longer able to deliver the levels of power it once supplied.
The Practicing Church is a new movement designed to encourage and accelerate the redefinition of Christianity being called for by Christians and Non Christians. A hunger for spiritual authenticity and demand for practicality is replacing beliefism – a spirituality that puts me first – with otherlyness.
The Practicing Church tells the stories of people and churches where beliefs (have) gone good.
We believe:
The church is being redirected by God to major in serving and minor in beliefs.
We must widen the definition of serving to include the ordinary and doable.
God wants to change not only how outsiders see us but how we see ourselves.
We intend:
To provide practitioners of Otherlyness a platform and a voice.
To connect participants of The Practicing Church using every means at our disposal.
To collaborate with anyone who is interested in advancing this agenda.
This is not new. The "believing Church" is doing the Matthew Chapter 25 work that this guy is talking about. In my hometown there is the Catholic hospital, Catholic Social Services, five parochial schools - serving the working poor as well as the well-to-do, a crisis pregnancy center, food pantries and a host of parish-based works of mercy. The Protestants have the homeless shelter and I am sure a lot of other church activities.
Here in LA, the Episcopal Church has a host of ways to directly help the needy and the opportunity to piggy-back on other churchs' work as well. The Catholic Worker is a favorite of mine. For that matter check out today's "roundup" on EpiscopalCafe.
Maybe this guy is from a background or a parish that does nothing. That's sad, but don't fall for the line that "Believing" begets doing nothing.
Fr. Bill Ledbetter
Diocese of Los Angeles
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August 29, 2009 9:54 PM