Having a good time with Gerard at the Wholehearted Prayer Weekend. He believes the church in is Exile mode and not Truimphant mode, more like Babylon and not The Promised Land. Finding and holding the story is therefore more important than taking ground. this fits with my teaching on the church living in a Esther time and not a Queen Esther time. You have no idea what i am talking about, do you. My apologies.
Gerard also believes the millenium has changed the way we think and do ministry, which is why the things written only 3 years ago could not be written today - everything is sooo different. we were all sooo catastrophic back then, things were winding down.
Now we are all building and moving on. i noticed this also but did not ascribe it to the millenium as much as Gerard did.
