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| Posted by: Barney Wells |
9/5/2007 8:05 AM |
Welcome to a new corner of the blogosphere. Every few days I'll be posting something about the Church as it appears in America's small towns, villages, and countryside. Because I'm still working out the bugs in the technology, I'll keep this one short, but I do want to invite you to respond with your comment and questions about ministry in rural America.
For starters, let's consider Jesus as a rural minister. Mark 6:56 talks about His healing ministry taking place in the villages (koma) the towns (polis) and the countryside (agrous). The scope of Jesus' ministry included all the little villages and even the open country. Matthew 9:35 tells us what He did there: teaching, preaching, and healing. A ministry strategy that includes benevolence, evangelism, and spiritual formation was Jesus' pattern for ministry in a rural context.
If you know me, you know I have a lot more to say about this, but we're just getting started.
Answer a question for me, please. What do you think makes a minstry "rural?" |
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By dustandbreath on
9/12/2007 9:06 PM |
| rural means country. but there are different levels of rurality. Rureality? :) A big city guy may think all places below 65K (wink) are rural, but they are not. Most small town ministries will touch on rural areas, even if they are not IN the country, as my home church. |
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By jmorrissette on
9/19/2007 3:07 PM |
| Rural can certainly be relative to the number of people per square mile. However, being in the city, a key difference is that rural communities seem to share a common school system, common public space, and/or common network of relationships (plumbers, tree trimmers, barber, etc.) In the city there are many school systems, myriad public spaces, and complex networks of relationships. People in the city seem fragmented across these relationships and share few relationships in common. In rural areas we all have the same barber, plumber, 1st grade teacher, grocery store, etc. How am I doing Barney? |
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