{"id":1121,"date":"2006-04-22T16:03:05","date_gmt":"2006-04-22T04:03:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/1121"},"modified":"2006-04-24T11:51:33","modified_gmt":"2006-04-23T23:51:33","slug":"the-c-word","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/archives\/1121","title":{"rendered":"The C word"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What do we recognise as the maximum dispersion beyond which a community is no longer a &#8216;true&#8217; community? I&#8217;m trying to get some clarity on the concepts of community and localness, and whether or not a church has to get all super-local before it can be faithfully missional. So:<\/p>\n<table style=\"font-size:80%;font-family:arial,sans-serif;\">\n<tr>\n<th style=\"width:10em\">Community<\/th>\n<th>Things members share (non-definitive list)<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Global<\/td>\n<td>trade<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>The West<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Australasia<\/td>\n<td>English language, colonial history<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>NZ<\/td>\n<td>Law, 5-day working week<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Wellington<\/td>\n<td><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Newtown<\/td>\n<td>New World supermarket<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Dutchies within NZ<\/td>\n<td>customary food, Dutch language<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>the Church<\/td>\n<td>eucharist, baptism, scripture, creeds<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>the Anglican Church<\/td>\n<td>Archbishop of Canterbury, world mission<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Wellington Diocese<\/td>\n<td>Bishop Tom, mission to Wellington<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>S.Michael&#8217;s Kelburn<\/td>\n<td>Priest David, Kelburn mission <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>AngChap VUW<\/td>\n<td>VUW mission, friendship, Priest David<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Brooklyn Reformed<\/td>\n<td>forms of unity<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>Urban Vision<\/td>\n<td>vows, mission to e.g. Berhampore<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Help me expand\/complete my table if you like.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What do we recognise as the maximum dispersion beyond which a community is no longer a &#8216;true&#8217; community? I&#8217;m trying to get some clarity on the concepts of community and localness, and whether or not a church has to get all super-local before it can be faithfully missional. So: Community Things members share (non-definitive list) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/mhjb.co.nz\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}