One of my colleagues here in Grenoble, Howard Diehl, returned from the States recently and started talking about the changes going on at Willow Creek. He has a copy of the book the REVEAL group has put out. Very interesting stuff.
Heidi, over at Redemption Junkie, does a nice job of summing up what's going on here.
All this makes a lot of sense to me. We had a very nice melt down at our local church here in France. It started in June of 2006 and burned on through March of 2007. Many are still hurting.
As I thought long and hard about what led to all of this, I came to the conclusion that one of the elements that contributed to the crisis was the lack of spiritual transformation in the lives of the members of our community.
Spiritual transformation does not happen because I attend the right meetings or am involved in the right programs. It happens when I take the time to allow God's Spirit to accomplish his work in my life.
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