meditatio at the water's edge

emerging church...

In the West Michigan area we have a group of about 40 people (10-20 usually show up each month) gathering. We're mostly pastors, youth pastors, social workers, church planters.. u get the idea.

For the past year this group has been pretty informal - gathering with coffee or breafkast/lunch set before us, and our primary intention has been to support one another. Now it looks like we'll be starting more formal conversations around particular topics. We may even form some kind of advisory group... Here's the question for the moment?

So, we can keep using a useless title sush as "ooze group." We can use something like "emergent cohorts" or "emerging church." Or we could do something like "LetUsLoveOneAnother," create t-shirts, and put "Let Us Love..." On the front, and "Love One Another" on the back. Or maybe it would be a reminder to those of us who know about our group/conversation... We're really about the things of Jesus rather than being cool. (oh, but I do love cool)

I know this all sounds corny, but it has to do with a blog that I read by Doug Pagitt. For much more intellectual conversation around this matter, refer to Doug's blog. :)