My colleague Stephen Harrison and I have long been interested in ways that we can learn about faith through the arts. A little while back we wrote some of that work up. That work was aimed at schools but I'm always excited to see worshipping communities doing the same thing.
Read MoreThe Jesus Dojo
Imagine a world where we shifted our mindsets about worship: from worship services to service worship?
What if we gathered together to encourage each other towards love and good deeds by actually doing love and good deeds together in the name of Christ?
Jon Humphries shares:
"What if our worship was spiritual and faith practice joined as one? Where we listened for the Word of God who is Jesus as we reflected on Scripture by living out the teaching, by actually feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, visiting the imprisoned, setting the captives free, helping the blind to see and proclaiming the time of the Lord's favour?
I love Mark Scandrette's concept of the 'Jesus dojo'. The idea of making faith an actual practice, where we practice our faith by exercising our faith in loving service to God and others at the same time in real and practical ways, is pretty inspiring.
The problem is that it requires me to step out of a perfectly safe boat (even one which seems to be slowly sinking) and step out with Jesus onto the water. What if I don't have enough faith and sink?
We all know what the right answer. I just would love some people to step out with me."
www. Anglicannews.org is a service that aggregates news from around the Anglican communion into one easy site, making it simple to keep up to date with the Anglican Church around the world.
As well as listing the news, you can sign up for a daily email that means you get a reminder of what's going on and where.
One of the by-products of a site like this is that you can glance over its contents and get an interesting picture of what the Anglican Church is all about. What does it think is important? Where do its values lie? One answer to that question is found here.