1. The act or an instance of moving; a change in place or position.
2. A change in the location of troops, ships, or aircraft for tactical or strategic purposes.
3. A series of actions and events taking place over a period of time and working to foster a principle or policy: a movement toward world peace.
4. An organized effort by supporters of a common goal: a leader of the labor movement.
5. A tendency or trend: a movement toward larger kitchens.
Is Church supposed to be a movement?
If I look at number one, mmm, most churches have one building which probably doesn’t run around. Erwin uses multiple locations, which sounds fun, but probably frustrates some. If we don’t take this is a literal ‘position’, church should be constantly evolving, growing, changing - moving in regards to renewal of thought, adapting to environment.
Number two: This refers to major change of plan in regards to tactical and strategic procedure. “We’re not doing this now. And we’re not tweaking it. We’re changing position and doing THAT now.’ I think church is supposed to do this. Churches who are stuck to a ‘model’ - because this is what the Bible supposedly teaches in regards to model, will find it hard doing this. Also churches who are governed by the masses, or governed by pleasing the masses - or governed by pleasing the key tithers.
3 Yes yes yes. A movement working to foster a principle or policy. A movement towards truth Jesus/God taught us/reveals to us. A series of actions or events that do this. (A book could be written on the last statement) A process. Yes yes yes.
The fourth one: Common goal… without this the church would simple be a ‘bless me’ party.
FIVER. Ooooooh. Yes. Not the commercialized church ‘because we need to be trendy’. The church that gets this right is not trying to get this right. They just engage in such a way that understanding tendencies and trends is a natural consequence of their way of integrating consistently with those they continuously ‘move’ past and move with.
So currently at Re:Verb we are challenged by this…