The winter evenings where I live are dark. And as you walk our cold, dark streets with houses close to the pavement you can see into people’s homes. I often wonder what passers-by make of our missional communities when they look in. It creates for me a lovely image of mission. We live in a cold and dark world. But when people look in through the window they see a community of joy, love, friendship – a place of light and warmth and welcome. This is what the church must be in our dark, cold, loveless world: a community of light at street level. Here is the place where God’s kingdom can be
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