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September 01, 2006
Repentance Presbyterian Church
That's just one name that Laura and Rick Downs and I bandied about for the new church plant in Dorchester. Another one we came up with was Resurrection Fellowship. Half-jokingly of course, although Rick was serious about the fact that so many churches in the PCA are named Grace and Faith and none that he knows of are called Repentance.
I'm all for calling it Dorchester Community Church, but at any rate, whatever it might be called, it's an exciting thing of which to be a part. This is a far cry from North Shore Fellowship. There we started out with 200 people from LMPC, and then added on hundreds more right away, and the numbers have hardly diminished since then. Here we have 12-13 people in our small group, and no church planter as of yet, even though this plan has been in the works for some time. Simply because of the number of people, I know I will be heavily involved. Laura and I will most likely get to look around at different potential sites with one of the women in the small group, and we've been recruited to help lead the singing. We're hoping to start Sunday services soon, but that will only be if we decide to go with the multi-site approach, with Rick preaching since we don't have a church planter yet. Boston is not Chattanooga in many ways, but especially in the area of Christianity. The harvest is plenty...
BTW, the latest Christianity Today issue has a cover story called "Young, Restless, Reformed." It's about the "new" resurgence of Reformed theology among young people. They list off just about every institution of the PCA, EXCEPT for Covenant College! Maybe this whole marketing push isn't such a bad idea after all.
| By heiders | 07:22 AM
Comments
Probably because theology doesn't need to resurge at Cov. ;-)
We were part of a VERY small church plant in New Orleans. It was one of the best experiences of my life. I learned so much more about what it means to be in the Church than ever before in multi-hundred congregations.
Posted by: Jeannette at September 14, 2006 12:31 AM
