What particularly stood out to me during this lecture was Bishop Cray's rule of thumb, or "high school" formula for church planting amongst unchurched peoples. The emphasis here is on listening to the Holy Spirit AND to the culture, joining in on what God is ALREADY doing, and only then giving attention to what form or style worship might take. The idea that a clone will not work particularly struck me. I tend to think that my home church has it all figured out - and maybe we do, but only for our cultural context. It would have to look differently in LA or in Hawaii or in another country. The main idea here is that we can't call people to be like us. We must go and be with them and walk with them, working with the Holy Spirit in the hopes that they will become more like Jesus.
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