Pete Ward is senior lecturer in youth ministry and theological education at King’s College, London. About 10 years ago now Pete wrote Liquid Church, and it turned out to be rather influential. Pete’s theories have stuck around and shaped the views of many people interested in new forms of church. So Nomad thought they’d better find out a bit more.
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“There’s been a centripetal movement in church life where church as we know it seems to be the vehicle through which you do all these things like evangelism…and that’s delivered amazing life and energy in places. But at the same time, it’s kind of turned the heat down on the freedom to go and do things that aren’t ‘church.’”
“We might begin to think about church in a sort of ‘liquid mode’ as something that creates growing points where the Spirit is touching people’s lives. But we don’t necessarily – I don’t think – have to always be out looking for all the things you’d expect to see in ‘church’ in those things…we need to have confidence that the Holy Spirit is able to act outside our structures.”
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