book your face mark!

me mate mark
wrote a great question
on his book face
why (do)so many churches appear to be uninterested in reaching the community around them
n this little author 
never short of an ecclesial opinion
muttered something about it being
the wrong question 
n why weren't churches
offering what people actually need" ?
(if ya have fake book
ya can check this out for ya self)
n so the comments continued
n wif my usual dry wit
i made a plea
for stability
honesty
openness
dialogue
n maybe as a good little monastic
i should have added
(go n look it up)

but
(n i am on shaky ground here
'cos i am thinking out loud)
i wonder
if 
most of the time
we could walk the talk
do 
what we say we believe
treat 
people in our groups
the way we know they should be treated
n 
learn to 
shut up 
when we dont know
i reckon our churches
might just be a little more 
well
full!
all this not to mention
actually trying to help people
with living our 
modern lives of
stress
limitless options
shifting societal patterns
intimidating work lives
serial monogamy
n bad music
then we
might
get somewhere
but
of course
i could be 
wrong
so be
nice!

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Mark Brown said…
Up until a few moments ago I would have bluntly stated I didn't get poetry. Thanks for broadening my limited view. Nice.
3:17 PM
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