a new blog

my wife and i have just started a new blog. the purpose of this blog is so that youth leaders (particularly christians) can hav a place to 'Chew the Fat' about how we can do things better.

the blog is working with youth issues.

if you have christian friends who are working with youth then let them know about the site. we will update it every week with a new topic.

feel free to let us know some topics you would like to discuss.

a question of ethics

on wednesday night i chatted with a Christian friend of mine who is a youth worker. we were talking about a proposed "youth work code of practice" being proposed by the Youth Affairs Council for Victoria YACVic

he said that he believes that christians do not need training or a code of ethics to be youth workers. i said we did. what do you think?

are christians above the rest of our peers when it comes to services?

Intentional Christian Community???

over the past few weeks i have become more and more disenchanted with church. i have been disenchanted by corporate, small and many other forms of the way WE do community. i have come to feel that we do a version of community that is very individual and very dare i say it Post-Modern.

we have said that we are an intentional community at EBC however i am not certain that we are. i believe that most of us who are searching are wrestling with the questions i am wrestling with. the main question that i have at the moment is what is an intentional community and how will EBC become more intentional in the way we become followers of Jesus in Eltham? what will it look like? what will we have to sacrifice? what will we gain?