... it is 4 pm EDST in London, ON. Rolled into my folk's place at 0220 hours this AM after a full travel day Saturday. Got up and caught 90% of Hillside Church's service, and Tim's series on "What IS the Gospel?" and he made 'em think ( again, repeatedly :) including saying ... "scared the hell out of us" ... but it was in context, trust me. Skipped out a few minutes early and headed across town from SW to NE to catch North Park's 11:30 service, mostly to get Terry's series on "disharmony.com" on relationships. Great as well. Out to lunch with Ron B the mission(al) pastor at NPCC, which is a bit of an oxymoron since most of the pastors on staff there are missional, but no need to split hairs.
Bottomline, both these churches have changed radically since my time there most of the 1970's and 1980's ... they've grown, shrunk, moved, built, transitioned, deflated, had great stuff happen, absorbed hard stuff, but both are, I think, in very good, although very different places. At Hillside they were putting out more chairs at 10:15, cool. I said to someone there "this is a breath of fresh air". At lunch with Ron he outlined some of NPCC's journey, which was great, gave me goose bumps.
All said? it takes different kinds of churches in different times and spaces to get it done. Both Hillside and North Park are thinking capital "K" Kingdom in London, and beyond. Always great to see.
dlc
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