July Topic - Listening to all the voices

July Cohort meeting on Tuesday, July 25th at 6:30pm

Origins Church Office
581 9th Ave #3B
(corner of 42nd and 9 Ave.)
above the papaya dog.
Enter next to the hotdog place on 9th ave.
look for the ORIGINS poster in the door and buzz number 3B...

(August-no meeting, back in September)

The NYC Emergent Village Cohort is not the first regular gathering of emergent minded people in NYC - The Latino Leadership Circle already has that distinction.

Over the last year I have been thrilled by how God has been giving me friendships with some of the leaders of LLC. I met the founder David Ramos at the emergent theological conversation at Yale this winter, along with Jose Humphreys. I have been pastoring my church this whole year in the same building, the Lamb's theater, as Gabriel Salguero, the pastor the the Lamb's Manhattan Nazarene Church, and prof at Alliance Theo Seminary.

These guys have been very excited and encouraging to the start of the Cohort. I know as time goes on many of them will come and help build friendships. I'm hoping some of them will help in even deeper ways with the Cohort.

Last month, the LLC hosted Brian McLaren for a day full of events, and warmly invited me along. Here is a quote from David Ramos on the LLC blog which has inspired the topic for the July Cohort.

"Among many things Brian shared about his personal journey, described the history of the emergent dialogue, challenged us through narratives of faith in action, framed new questions for us, shared resources, and above all—authentically listened to us! While listening seems simple, it is nevertheless an act that lamentably, and often tragically, is not practiced enough within our communities, and as one person said, “Listening is an act of love.” "

So, let us take action - to listen as an act of love. Listening to people is how you go from acquaintance to friendship - so let's listen to one another.

July topic: How do we emerge together? (listening to one another)

Come and share your perspective, especially if you feel it isn't being heard.

As always we will make room for those new to the discussion and cover some of the basics if they don't know much and are curious to learn. We're all just getting into this!