…but today I want to return to BMS Catalyst Live and tell you about Miranda Harris' contribution. Miranda is involved in conservation work through A Rocha and talked about community. As with John Lennox's talk there was just so much great material so here are just a couple of thoughts.
Miranda was talking about her experiences of what it means to be in community. One of the things that she said which struck me was, that if Christ is in us, then as people get to know us as we really are then they will eventually meet Jesus.
This got me thinking...so often it is the 'as we really are' bit of that that we don't like the sound of. Therefore we always try to keep people at a distance, but this affects community.
Miranda then gave four pointers in building community.
1) More eating than meetings - hence the need for a new dining table - the biggest one you can afford.
2) More listening than talking.
3) More failure than success.
4) More wonder than worry.
You can listen to Miranda's talk here.
Catalyst Live, Miranda Harris, Reading, November 2013 from BMS World Mission on Vimeo.
Miranda, and her husband set up A Rocha's first field study centre in Portugal in 1983. A Rocha is an international Christian organisation which, inspired by God's love, engages in scientific research, environmental education and community-based conservation projects (to quote from their website).
