Why Gather

For a few weeks, I've been musing over a line in Mark Strom's book "Reframing Paul". It relates to our purpose in gathering as 'the church' being to "gather in community for conversation".

Our Sunday gatherings these days are really a teenage bible study / feast / fun time - where we try to interact with each other, parts of the bible, & god. So this phrase "gathering in community for conversation" seems like a good description for us (even thought the conversation gets noisy as lots of people speak at once) .... & probably a good description for why church communities in general should gather ....

I've been 'invited' to a court hearing on Thursday - an ex-minister vs denomination dispute re 'church' property. It reminds me that if you don't have a structured organisation, there is no one to battle with, and if there is no organisational property, then there is no property to fight over.