A quote from a perceptive and generous book by Alan & Ele Kreider, Worship and Mission after Christendom. It really got me thinking and excited. It's so right for today!
"Hope is the most interesting currency a congregation has to spend. Christians in worship are renewed in hope: by the big story, the little stories, and their encounter with God in sacraments, words, and brothers and sisters. The New Testament does not urge Christians to evangelise other people; it commands Christians to 'give an account of the hope that is within them (1 Peter 3.15)'. The Christians' main task is not so much faith sharing as 'hope sharing'."
(Worship and Mission after Christendom, Paternoster, 2009, p 173)
(Worship and Mission after Christendom, Paternoster, 2009, p 173)
