Steve Timmis and David Fairchild enthusiastically taking questions
“Every church is planted into a particular culture and generation and is only designed for that particular culture and generation. In other words, every church has a shelf life.” So began the church planting week of the summer school at WEST. Steve Timmis (of the Crowded House, Porterbrook Network and recently Acts 29) kicked us off with that statement that he called the live grenade in the room with its pin still in. Joining him was David Fairchild (of Kaleo Church and Acts 29).
What follows are some fairly disjointed and unorganised reflections from the week.
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Modernism has had us believe for years that we’re getting increasingly cleverer than people of years gone by. I don’t believe it! It’s all tied into the idea of progress that we make advancements in civilisations and so society progresses. We have this tendency to think that people thousands of years ago were stupid. I started to stop believing this a few years ago after reading Augustine’s Confessions (or at least an abridged version of it because I’m not clever enough for the full version! 
I’ve been in Sri Lanka for the last few days on honeymoon. Inevitably there were many cultural differences, even though most of the locals spoke English very well. There was the much disliked culture of tipping for even as little as taking someone’s photo, of being followed round the shop by the shopkeeper so he can explain everything including the difference between loose tea and tea bags! But there was one thing that was culturally no different to Britain. In Sri Lanka, I attended my first ever Anglican Service!
