Monday, July 14, 2008

Talking Back

In our church we have a wonderful practice called "Sermon TalkBack". 

Each Monday morning, the preacher from the previous day gathers over coffee with anyone who wants to get deeper into the sermon. Folks are welcome to disagree with, add to, pull apart and identify with the sermon in any (speaking the truth with love) way they choose. 

This is worship in a big way for me. At the coffee shop we have food and noise (and caffeine) and everything I appreciate about a community who cares for one another. We're not ashamed to raise our progressive yet diverse Christian voices in a public space, where anyone *gasp* might hear us. We are skeptics and whole-hearted bible-believers and everything in between.

I wish that people who have never experienced an open, questioning, faithful dialogue could experience this just once. They would make the conversation that much deeper.

Talk back!

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