While getting ready for Sunday, I have been editing a clip from “Pay it forward”, a movie with Kevin Spacey and the “I see dead people” kid.

In one classroom scene, the scene I am playing in church, the teacher (Kevin) warns his kids about atrophy.

Atrophy is a medical term
“Decrease from previous normal size of the body or a part, cell, organ, or tissue. An organ or body part’s cells may be reduced in number, size or both. Atrophy of some cells and organs is normal at certain points in the life cycle. Other causes include malnutrition, disease, disuse, injury, and hormone over- or underproduction.”

Basically your body withers away through a lack of desire or ability to grow.

Sounds like a condition which could befall either us as Christians, or our church.

Without a deep desire to grow ourselves, and for our church to grow, we would descend into atrophy.

Andrew Hamilton has given up blogging

He probably has the most visited Christian blog in Perth, if not Australia.

No doubt in part due to his ability to articulate well what is best in the Emerging Church movement.

He has his reasons, but his blog will be missed by those of us who believe in Mission and believe in Spiritual Leadership.

If there is one person who convinced me that there is some good coming out of alternative expressions of Church, it is Hamo.

I hope and pray the Mission work at Brighton reaches many people for Christ, and that Andrew finds other ways of encouraging the whole body of Christ.

It couldn’t happen to a nicer bunch of blokes.

Following a complaint to parking inspectors from the Department of Sport and Recreation, West Coast players and coaches returned to their cars at Leederville to find they had been issued $150 fines.
An inspector issuing the tickets said he had responded to a complaint because their parking bays had been filled with the flash cars of West Coast players.
Among the many unhappy faces who received fines were Eagles vice-captain Andrew Embley, Daniel Kerr, Tyson Stenglein and assistant coach Darren Harris. Stenglein was miffed to find two tickets on his Holden ute, the second posted by teammate Kerr, who obviously did not think much of his.

As a ECer, (admit it Andrew) he has some good thoughts

If you have not checked out his blog yet, I reccomend it.

It must be hard to be a Pastor in the good old US of A sometimes.

Grace, understanding,journeying with people.

Interesting to see the journalist do very little to hide his disgust