Comments on: A New Metaphor is Emerging… http://danielleshroyer.com/2010/02/12/a-new-metaphor-is-emerging/ Thoughts about God, hope, life, and love. Tue, 10 Apr 2012 06:42:25 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Danielle http://danielleshroyer.com/2010/02/12/a-new-metaphor-is-emerging/comment-page-1/#comment-272 Danielle Fri, 19 Feb 2010 04:52:15 +0000 http://danielleshroyer.com/?p=415#comment-272 Tisha, As one who is attempting to hold strongly to those two values as well, I wish you all the best and would love to hear the wisdom you gather along the way! Perhaps we can share notes?! I think one of the most necessary changes we must make to the endeavor of being a pastor is sustainability. So many of my dear colleagues are tired and stressed and overworked. We must work hard at rejecting the idea that being less than a workaholic is somehow ministerial mediocrity. This may be admittedly easier for me as someone hired as a bivocational/part-time pastor. But I applaud you for your commitment up front to honoring and safeguarding the richness of your life. Growing a church that way is much, much slower, but then again strong, shady oaks don't grow overnight either. We are also trying to do the hard work of rising above infighting among our Christian family clans and seeking to be a community that holds up, learns from, and practices the rich traditions of all of them. Sometimes we do this better than others, but it remains my prayer and hope always. There is something so beautiful and fertile about that open space... I pray God's peace among you both as you seek direction! Tisha,

As one who is attempting to hold strongly to those two values as well, I wish you all the best and would love to hear the wisdom you gather along the way! Perhaps we can share notes?!

I think one of the most necessary changes we must make to the endeavor of being a pastor is sustainability. So many of my dear colleagues are tired and stressed and overworked. We must work hard at rejecting the idea that being less than a workaholic is somehow ministerial mediocrity. This may be admittedly easier for me as someone hired as a bivocational/part-time pastor. But I applaud you for your commitment up front to honoring and safeguarding the richness of your life. Growing a church that way is much, much slower, but then again strong, shady oaks don’t grow overnight either.

We are also trying to do the hard work of rising above infighting among our Christian family clans and seeking to be a community that holds up, learns from, and practices the rich traditions of all of them. Sometimes we do this better than others, but it remains my prayer and hope always. There is something so beautiful and fertile about that open space…

I pray God’s peace among you both as you seek direction!

]]> By: Tisha Brown http://danielleshroyer.com/2010/02/12/a-new-metaphor-is-emerging/comment-page-1/#comment-271 Tisha Brown Thu, 18 Feb 2010 18:02:38 +0000 http://danielleshroyer.com/?p=415#comment-271 I was having a conversation with a friend of mine this week about the discernment process we've entered together that we hope will lead us toward starting a new church. We agreed in that conversation that we held two values we hoped would guide our discernment and the community we hope to form: 1. This process will not burn us out or lead us into cynicism and negativity. We will do it in a way that affirms the current richness of our lives while recognizing the call to grow in new ways. 2. We are not forming a new community out of a desire to stand against something that currently exists but out of a desire to reach those who are currently outside the walls with the life altering, radically inclusive love of God. As two women raised in the mainline with great gratitude for the faith we were given and have claimed as our own we want to bridge the richness of our tradition into the future and stand in a more open space. Thank you for affirming this sensibility and for your courageous and beautiful words. I was having a conversation with a friend of mine this week about the discernment process we’ve entered together that we hope will lead us toward starting a new church. We agreed in that conversation that we held two values we hoped would guide our discernment and the community we hope to form: 1. This process will not burn us out or lead us into cynicism and negativity. We will do it in a way that affirms the current richness of our lives while recognizing the call to grow in new ways. 2. We are not forming a new community out of a desire to stand against something that currently exists but out of a desire to reach those who are currently outside the walls with the life altering, radically inclusive love of God. As two women raised in the mainline with great gratitude for the faith we were given and have claimed as our own we want to bridge the richness of our tradition into the future and stand in a more open space.

Thank you for affirming this sensibility and for your courageous and beautiful words.

]]> By: Danielle http://danielleshroyer.com/2010/02/12/a-new-metaphor-is-emerging/comment-page-1/#comment-270 Danielle Wed, 17 Feb 2010 21:53:14 +0000 http://danielleshroyer.com/?p=415#comment-270 Thanks Mike! Thanks Mike!

]]> By: Mike Todd http://danielleshroyer.com/2010/02/12/a-new-metaphor-is-emerging/comment-page-1/#comment-269 Mike Todd Wed, 17 Feb 2010 03:21:12 +0000 http://danielleshroyer.com/?p=415#comment-269 I've said all along that I have no interest in the whole "emerging" discussion (I'm having enough trouble figuring out what it means to follow Jesus). Having said that, I love this post. I’ve said all along that I have no interest in the whole “emerging” discussion (I’m having enough trouble figuring out what it means to follow Jesus). Having said that, I love this post.

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