Brian Mclaren in Glasgow

On Monday night Brian Mc spoke about his book a new kind of Christian.I have no problem with his challenge for us to find new ways to express the kingdom.Although I think he may have been stretching it a bit with one or two of his examples.

Whatever expression of the kingdom we come up with it must have Jesus at its centre.It is in him and through him we see and hear and feel what the kingdom is.Jesus used all that was around him at the time to explain the kingdom .And I feel that in order to communicate with this culture we must seek to do the same.As we long as we seek to make sure we are not diluting the kingdom Jesus gave us.
We also have to remember that the kingdom that Jesus gave us cannot be fully grasped and in some ways will always be a mystery to us.I like that about Jesus and his kingdom.

During the question time chaired by Kieth Short I felt we got a glimpse of the heart of the man again.He is not asking us to throw the baby out with the bath water.
New forms of Church are here and more are coming what we must do is look forward and not seek to be always looking back and blaming those behind us.After 2000 years its only to be expected that there is a bit of a mess.Our job is to pick our way through that and find the way forward holding all that was good dear to hearts and gently rejecting all that failed because the one thing that is certain is that we ourselves will make mistakes.