It begins.
An excerpt from an email to our youth group, twe12th:
A few months ago I was praying on my rooftop and I felt this strange urge to “start a church” on our rooftop. Of course, a “church” is nothing more than a simple gathering of people who want to grow in God together. It’s not an institution or an organization, but a community. So starting “a church” would be none too different from what we’ve been doing all these years.
I talked to Sarah about it and discovered that she had been having similar ideas. We mulled it over, but our collective lack of free time seemed to be a river that we could not ford - until last month, that is.
As many of you know, last month many of our regulars could not make it to twe12th. So we’ve been wondering if it is time to take twe12th in a new direction and open it up to something bigger and more expansive. Coincidentally, a number of people - some of them former twe12th-ers - have begun to express an interest in meeting regularly to grow in God together. Which all sounds suspiciously like “church” to me…
And so we think it is time. Time to “start a church” on our rooftop. Time to open our Fridays to a larger community where anyone who is hungry and/or thirsty can come. We don’t know exactly where this will lead, and we are guessing that it will look and feel very much like twe12th. But we think that it would make little sense to try and push ahead with twe12th-as-we-know-it, when it feels like God is moving us forward toward something broader, deeper, and more expansive.
As much as possible, we want this to be a community where we can grow together in God, ask good, provocative questions, and give fresh expression to the ancient and beautiful idea of “church”.
And so this Friday it begins: The Rooftop Church. Or, simply, “The Rooftop.” Sarah’s cooking a sweet meal and we’re inviting you all over to experience church on our rooftop. What will we do? What will we explore? What do we hope to get from it? You’re invited to come and see :)
