CWW National Event 2008 - All you can't leave behind
Now what has a Police Box got to do with the above event? Well just watch and learn and see how you can manipulate pictures to have a relevance to your story. The newspapers do it all the time. iTalker is not called this for nothing. The plans for CWW National Event 2008 are beginning to take shape.
I spent most of yesterday at meeting in the church's central offices taking the plans a little further. We've got a great title for the event. " All you can't leave behind" U2 fans will recognise the title. I think we should begin to expect big numbers to attend. Some people of great faith believe that Bono himself might turn up. And who can tell maybe even Dr Who. The idea of a tented city is certainly attracting the attention of congregations from all over Scotland. A church with no fixed abode seems to have caught the imagination of people.
It may well be that we could attract around 10,000 people each day. I think people are identifying with the need for the church to see itself as a people on a journey - on the move. It was Stanley Hauerwas, who wrote the book "Resident Aliens" in it he describes the church as people who have no set abode in this world. An alien people living Kingdom values in a strange land. If Hauerwas had known of the Dr. I think he might have suggested that the church is a kind of Tardis.
However, I'm not completely sold on his thesis. I'm not for binning the creation yet. I think the world has been created by our Father and there is a sense in which we are called to be freedom fighters reclaiming the creation, reflecting the idea that Christ has come to redeem and reconcile the creation back to God. Here's lyrics of a song that Iain jamieson and I composed a few years ago. Resident Aliens. Anyway I hope that we have lots of tents at Ingliston on 3rd and 4th May 2008 and you know what I think aliens with or with out tents will be most welcome. And if Dr Who wishes to turn up with a group of Aliens he too will be most welcome.
Resident Aliens
They said that we were alien,
Resident aliens,
Strangers, in a foreign land,
They said that were were enemies
Mortals enemies,
Captives held by an evil band
But I'm claiming all this world for Jesus
And giving back my life into his hands
This is not their world it is my Father's
And I 'm not a stranger but a son,
I'm beautiful creature, beautiful creature
Reflection of a Father's love
Invaded by saboteurs
Secular saboteurs
Subversives of the Father's plans
Programmed to believe in fact
Scientific facts
Reason is the god we serve
But remember love is based on more than reason,
And Logic's just a tool to find the truth
believing is the key to understanding
And faith brings confidence in who we are
We're beautiful creatures we're beautiful creatures
Reflections of a Father's love
Scared no more
Running scared no more
Fugitives in the Fatherland
Time to speak the truth,
even live the truth
First fruits of father's plans
But I'm claiming all this world for Jesus
And giving back my life into his hands
This is not their world it is my Father's
And I 'm not a stranger but a son,
I'm beautiful creature, beautiful creature
Reflection of a Father's love
