'Resourcing Innovative Mission' was a day which explored key HeartEdge concepts including the 4Cs – commerce, culture, compassion and congregation – as a model for mission. We experienced Great Sacred Music - a 35-minute sequence of words and music speaking to heart, head and soul - with St Martin's Voices Fellows and myself, while reflecting on the use of culture to share faith insights with secular audiences. In addition to Great Sacred Music, we also heard about Humanitarian Corridors at St John's Anglican Church in Ghent and the Community Kitchen at Holy Trinity Brussels. The day also provided opportunities to share ideas, identify key challenges and assets for future initiatives. The day ended with 'Sing Joyfully', an evening concert by St Martin's Voice Fellows.
'Overflowing joy, gratitude and thankfulness have been the threads running through this performance. We bring this Great Sacred Music towards its end by thanking God with all we have; heart and hands and voices. The 4Cs of HeartEdge bring together the essential ingredients to human flourishing – culture, commerce, compassion, congregation - in ‘a vision of a civil economy, of what work and play, friendship and worship, social concern and evangelism, diversity and identity might look like’ when we live God’s future now. This holistic vision means that the 4Cs are not there solely for you or me. They are not instrumental and God is not encountered through them as an instrument to use to solve problems or gain security. Instead, we encounter God as a mystery to be entered and in so doing find true life.'
Tomorrow I will preach at the 9.00am and 10.30am service at Holy Trinity Brussels. St Martin's Voices will sing at the 10.30am service before giving a second concert at Église Notre-Dame des Victoires au Sablon (Rue des Sablons, 1000 Bruxelles) at 3.30pm.
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Moses Hogan - God's Gonna Set This World On Fire.
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