While chatting with an interested colleague who has agreed to help me with the project, I realised she was 'post-church'. Having been to church for years she was left spiritually empty and people who seemed really friendly on a Sunday didn't want to know during the week. Church became something else to be fitted into a busy schedule that was eventually dropped. I was upfront that my ultimate aim was to 'start a church - but not as we know it'. I tried to explain as best I could that church needs to be simple and fluid, able to flow into every area of our lives. That people could cross that invisible 'boundary' that separates what we call secular and sacred without actually realising it. At this point the conversation got interesting. Half an hour later when we both realised it was definately time for another coffee we had explored and debated God and the church and my friend was looking forward to an experience of church that was more authentic and more 'doable' in a busy lifestyle. I think I have my first convert! (or is that a modernist statement?)
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