For nearly 7 years we've been a part of the fellowship that meets in this building. For just over a year now we've added an English speaking church to the mix. A year ago the French church was going through a very nice crisis...
Today, things are looking up. The International Church is healthy and vibrant, the French church is getting better. So as I sit at my thinking place, I'm thinking about church life. I think we've learned a few things during our time serving here, and I think the most important thing is when a church comes to the point of asking "Who are we?" and "What should we be doing?" It seemed like a simple thing to do but it wasn't.
Everyone knows what they want the church to be, we just can't agree on it. So to force the group to say what they want and be confronted with maybe, just maybe changing their way of thinking, well that's a lot to ask. So through the crises, yes there was more than one, we got to the point where we could ask the right questions.
It just took us 6 years and that meant lots of falling down, getting up and trying again...
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