Diversity

Part of the St Jude's Vision is to work with other churches in the Inner North of Melbourne to seek Spiritual Renewal together. We want to do this because we realise that we won't see "spiritual renewal" simply by doing our own thing, but it will need to be a movement of God among the people of God in this part of the city.

So today I met with a group of church leaders from churches across the inner northern suburbs of Melbourne. We had a few denominations represented and it was a really good occasion. We heard of lots of different things happening in lots of different places. The theme was diversity as people spoke of what they were trying to do. It was very encouraging indeed.

One of the things that everyone seemed to agree on, was that the old Christendom models of ministry are a thing of the past. The future will be to think in new ways, pioneering, missional ways of reaching out to the world, and not simply expecting people to come to us.

We agreed to meet again to talk and pray and hopefully to cooperate together in what God is up to in the inner north.