{"id":520,"date":"2010-12-18T17:26:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-18T17:26:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=520"},"modified":"2010-12-18T17:26:00","modified_gmt":"2010-12-18T17:26:00","slug":"growth-in-discipleship-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elizaphanian.com\/?p=520","title":{"rendered":"Growth in discipleship #3"},"content":{"rendered":"

I want to try and answer my own question from the last post in this sequence<\/a>: “do we provide a context within which people can enter in all sorts of different ways?”<\/p>\n

Four different ‘shapes’ – and recognising that we are all a blend of them: active experimentation (‘doing’); concrete experience (‘feeling’); reflective observation (‘watching’ – actually I think ‘imagining’ is better); and abstract conceptualisation (‘thinking’). Let’s call them earth, water, fire and air<\/a> ;o) And of course – and essentially – they all feed into each other.<\/p>\n

So what we’d need, to have a healthy environment within which people can grow as disciples, are places where:
– we can get on with the ‘doing’, eg serving the community – classic example: soup kitchen;
– we can get on with the ‘feeling’, eg pastoral care – classic example: home visiting;
– we can get on with the ‘imagining’, eg creative arts and liturgy – classic example: the eucharistic liturgy; and
– we can get on with the ‘thinking’, eg doing theology – classic example: bible study.<\/p>\n

The questions, therefore, are: do these characterisations work to sum up how people can get involved in the faith (these are the different paths by which people can come in – have we covered all the bases?); and – and here’s the kicker – what do we have in place by which people can do this?<\/p>\n

Here on Mersea, my initial thought is that we are pretty healthy (tho’ not perfect!!) on the latter three, but there’s quite a gap with the first.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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