The start of a “Web presence” for The Church of the Saviour has gone live. A new friend, Gentry Underwood, has been talking to CoS people in Washington for some time, and we actually met via my contacting Cos prior to my last trip there in March. Kayla McLung told me that had been getting some help in envisioning what they could do to utilize the Web to help enable scattered pilgrims to seek out Authentic Church wherever they are. So, in the tradtion of their Wellspring efforts, which have been helping people across the world explore the process of becoming church and what structures nurture faithfulness on that journey, this website is hoped to be a tool in that regard; to encourage many conversations and invite scattered pilgrims on the journey to seek out what God is doing where they liove, and where God may be calling them to embody authentic church.
What is inward/outward? at inward /outward
What is inward/outward?
inward/outward is a space set apart to wonder, dream, explore…
what it means…
why it matters…
how it works…
…when ordinary people come together in pursuit of community, justice, forgiveness—set free for the sake of Love.
inward/outward grows out of The Church of the Saviour in Washington, D.C., where at the heart of being church is the desire to discover how to be on an authentic journey with others – inward toward our true selves rooted in Love – outward toward whatever blocks Love’s entry.
Even though we are scattered around the world, our hope is that we will use inward/outward to find each other and emerge from our aloneness, sharing our insights and questions, our ideas and doubts, lighting fires of hope and loving action.
I will be involved in any way I can in helping and participating in this Web vision. While I have had thoughts and hopes for such a thing over the past 10 years, I am perfectly happy to be a “plugEE” into these happenings, as opposed to a “plugER” in this effort. It takesd a special, unique set of planing skills and project directi on skills to do this in a way thatis faithful to the community that is behind such a project, and no more is this relevant than in the case of The Church of the Saviour. It is importaant to keep in mind what this ministry/calling is for this expression of the Church’s ministry. Gentry seems to have arrived and fit this bill, and has done so with the same hunger to help tell the story of this unique expression of church, and to communicate it faitfullly in the Web medium. I find this to be an exciting and fascinating and hopeful effort, as you mihgt surmise from all my personal testimony and theologizing over the past 3 years as I share about how the Church of the Saviours vision has captured me; and given me a hunger to be in such a formative and faitful community of God’s people.