I went to a camp for 'alternative' Believers at Papamoa on the weekend. I took lots of photos and then appeared to have wiped them. There was around 50 people who came and went during the weekend. The food was fabulous and the weekend was well planned.
David Newby (Author of 'The Bubble Will Burst)was the guest speaker.
It was an odd weekend because the institutional church would consider Newby a radical as well as his book. However his audience was far more radical then him as most of them have already left the institutional church and are trying to live out a more organic, New testement way of living their Christianity.
So our radical guest became the conservative flavour of the weekend which was rather bizare. A lot of the discussion from Newby focussed on things like creating an inclusive leadership team and having an open pulpit. This is great if you come from a traditional perspective but the rest of the camp followers were not even doing institutional church let alone having a pulpit that could be opened!
The disapointment with the weekend was the lack of opportunity to hear and share one anothers journeys and thoughts as we walk into this new wine skin. We were so busy learning about the new wine that we did'nt really get a chance to taste it till near the end. As some one said on Saturday night, we were taught about the new wine through an incrediably old wine skin.Someone else said that none of us would of come if David Newby had not spoken. This is not true for myself. I would have come because I am sick of more knowledge and information but I am so thirsty to meet other believers who are journeying towards a confusing destination.

I HOPE WE HAVE ANOTHER GET TOGETHER, BUT I HOPE WE DO NOT NEED A SPEAKER AGAIN. ITS TIME TO BE GROWNUPS AND TRUST ONE ANOTHER!