What's In These Wordles? An Abundance Of Manna For Faithful Explorers

What is in these Wordles? How does this "manna of words" mean for us? Upon close examination, what clues do we find here that might guide us toward a vision of Church that God is inviting us to claim? Can this manna of words, both sweet and sour, inform and also correct us as we act to be the Body of Christ wherever we are in the world? For 99% of us that is mostly outside church walls.

Those are deep questions that our Outside Church Walls group only began to explore when we gathered last Friday at the welcoming home of the Gay City Health Project in Seattle. You can be certain we will share our discoveries and insights with you as we digest how we view these descriptive words of Church as valuable markers for "people of the way".

Thank you, thank you to each of you – the 1,299 of you - who chose to enter into this journey with us by offering the gift of your descriptive words for CHURCH. I hope you will continue to come on along with us – with your prayers, with your hopes, with your thoughts. How do these two Wordles mean for you? (Note: All the detailed and raw data about these Wordles are found in blogs on this web-site by Robert, our gifted statistician; July 1st, "So What Do People Think of Church?", and July 12th, Raw Survey Data Now Available.)

Christ's Peace
MaryAnn