27 June 2010
Looking back through Christian history there seems to be constant pattern: a reform movement starting from a small core, often where not expected, reviving existing moribund structures or often creating new ones, gaining large numbers of adherents, investing heavily in material structures, then slowly losing momentum and general public acceptance, until such time as another revival comes. The Methodist movement is the prime example in English history. What percentage of Methodist chapels of the heyday (? 1910) are still in use today.
Right we in Belgium are clearly in one of those trough periods. We need to remain confident that the revival will come, and to be part of it in the way God wills. We must not bind ourselves so hard to existing structures (including buildings) as to forfeit all flexibility when the time comes.
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anglomedved) wrote2010-07-16 11:09 pm
