Comments on: ★ The Front Porch http://www.toddhiestand.com/the-front-porch/01/ Field Notes on Bi-Vocational Church Leadership in Suburban America Sat, 04 Feb 2012 14:10:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: jake http://www.toddhiestand.com/the-front-porch/01/comment-page-1/#comment-175 jake Wed, 02 Feb 2005 21:55:44 +0000 http://www.toddhiestand.com/?p=140#comment-175 You can't fully appreciate a good glass of sweet tea in the South without a front porch. Good stuff, next we should press our Philly church to serve sweet tea. ;) You can’t fully appreciate a good glass of sweet tea in the South without a front porch. Good stuff, next we should press our Philly church to serve sweet tea. ;)

]]> By: todd http://www.toddhiestand.com/the-front-porch/01/comment-page-1/#comment-174 todd Wed, 02 Feb 2005 21:55:13 +0000 http://www.toddhiestand.com/?p=140#comment-174 geoff, great question at the end. we've been blessed to have that "coffee shop" multipurpose building where we can meet the world half-way (not perfect, but a much better picture of incarnational ministry than my past experiences at least!). btw, we're hosting two local bands in our building tomorrow night. i think we can expect at least 100 + people from the community to begin building true friendships with...or at the very least giving them a space to belong to our faith community. anyways, I think you make a great point that this cannot be the extent of our seeking to incarnate the love of Christ to the world. a great challange indeed! thanks for stopping by, i'm reading more about your community down there and i am liking what i see! geoff,
great question at the end. we’ve been blessed to have that “coffee shop” multipurpose building where we can meet the world half-way (not perfect, but a much better picture of incarnational ministry than my past experiences at least!). btw, we’re hosting two local bands in our building tomorrow night. i think we can expect at least 100 + people from the community to begin building true friendships with…or at the very least giving them a space to belong to our faith community.
anyways, I think you make a great point that this cannot be the extent of our seeking to incarnate the love of Christ to the world. a great challange indeed!

thanks for stopping by, i’m reading more about your community down there and i am liking what i see!

]]> By: geoff http://www.toddhiestand.com/the-front-porch/01/comment-page-1/#comment-173 geoff Wed, 02 Feb 2005 21:54:26 +0000 http://www.toddhiestand.com/?p=140#comment-173 've been thinking about this recently as it relates to our community in Lexington. we need to create a space somewhere between the 'church building' (too sterile?) and the 'living room' (too intimate?). the front porch is a wonderful image....certainly a challenge for the emerging missional church to create a space that blends public (allowing for some level of anonymity) and the private (familial 'tone'). i'm interested to hear more of you thoughts on this... oh..one other factor. when you are a poor community and can't buy a coffee shop or even a multi-function building renting a 'front porch' might be the only option - apart from going into our homes. ‘ve been thinking about this recently as it relates to our community in Lexington. we need to create a space somewhere between the ‘church building’ (too sterile?) and the ‘living room’ (too intimate?). the front porch is a wonderful image….certainly a challenge for the emerging missional church to create a space that blends public (allowing for some level of anonymity) and the private (familial ‘tone’). i’m interested to hear more of you thoughts on this…
oh..one other factor. when you are a poor community and can’t buy a coffee shop or even a multi-function building renting a ‘front porch’ might be the only option – apart from going into our homes.

]]> By: LT http://www.toddhiestand.com/the-front-porch/01/comment-page-1/#comment-172 LT Wed, 02 Feb 2005 21:53:34 +0000 http://www.toddhiestand.com/?p=140#comment-172 i love how you're thinking these days bro. thinking about space is so critical and it's interesting how people think that it's just a suburban thing, southern thing to have one. the idea of the porch exists in the inner city too and in a slightly different way but it is a place for interaction. i love how you’re thinking these days bro. thinking about space is so critical and it’s interesting how people think that it’s just a suburban thing, southern thing to have one. the idea of the porch exists in the inner city too and in a slightly different way but it is a place for interaction.

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