Later this week I'm involved in a team meeting (Commission is the technical word!) for the planting of a new church in the southern part of Inverness. It's a new experience for me and one which I'm sure will have its ups and downs. I've just been reading here and discovered a recommendation for this book. There’s a lot of talk about ‘fresh expressions’ of church emerging in our culture. But what does it actually feel like to be given a blank piece of paper and told to start something from scratch? Michael Volland takes us with him through the first year of his pioneering ministry. With the full backing of one of the oldest denominations in the West (the Church of England), attached to a cathedral but given free rein, Michael steps out to discover what ‘church’ might mean for those who have written it off as an irrelevant institution.
For the majority of us involved in the Commission this is a new experience. We also have a blank piece of paper in terms of how to start this new church. This sounds like the kind of book which would be very helpful to read.
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