Class Reflection for Wednesday Week 6

Today Dr. Bolger continued his discussion on the Emerging Church.  One thing that struck me about his description today was how inefficient life in an emerging church might be.  When I was on leadership for a young adults group, it was my group’s job to lay out a plan for social service.  We were all sharing the responsibility for the group and decided that before we did anything we should pray and seek God’s guidance.  This, of course, was an important step.  But, I don’t know if it was because of the similar temperments among us, or because none of us were really profoundly dedicated to social service at the time, but we prayed and talked for weeks, but we never once organized anything.  I think we all enjoyed the fellowship and discussions we were having, but there was no one who took the initiative to spearhead a project, and it wasn’t immediatly clear whose job it was to rally the group into action.  Perhaps the problem was the make-up of the group…we all had a natural affinity for one another, but perhaps we couldn’t complement one another.  Also another problem might have been that we really didn’t have a solid theology for what we were wanting to do.  I think most of us were in the group to form friendships, and so by meeting and praying we were able to get our needs met, and the idea of service was secondary.  Bu perhaps if we had had a vision of being formed first for service and that our fellowship might come out of that we would have been more active.  In any case, as I think about my case study, I will want to think about the make up of  a leadership team and how to actually promote action in a consensus model of leadership.