Comments on: More on The Gospel and Appalachia http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/more-on-the-gospel-and-appalachia ...dispatches from the post-evangelical wilderness Sat, 21 Nov 2009 20:17:18 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: adcreech http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/more-on-the-gospel-and-appalachia/comment-page-1#comment-6834 adcreech Fri, 02 Jun 2006 16:00:43 +0000 http://www.internetmonk.com/archive/more-on-the-gospel-and-appalachia#comment-6834 Hey Michael, you might want to check out my comment on Amy's blog about that deal. I just put it up today. I sent her an e-mail that was a bit longer. Interesting stuff - being from Harlan myself. I'm with you on the being careful thing. When you get down to all that, I really think that whole giant push about "missions" in the church is overdone - I mean, not what we need to be doing. I like what you said about missional Christians being there. I'm not sure a bunch of "saviors" from the outside need to move there but if there were people there already who started small faith communities and lived with the people, were the people, and helped as they lived the life of the people - that would be it. But that is a long-haul solution, as any really good solution is. And we don't like long haul. Anyway, it would be interesting, as I said to her, if I met her when she did her volunteer work in Harlan - I'm pretty sure at my old church there. We'll see. Peace to you. Hey Michael, you might want to check out my comment on Amy’s blog about that deal. I just put it up today. I sent her an e-mail that was a bit longer. Interesting stuff – being from Harlan myself. I’m with you on the being careful thing. When you get down to all that, I really think that whole giant push about “missions” in the church is overdone – I mean, not what we need to be doing. I like what you said about missional Christians being there. I’m not sure a bunch of “saviors” from the outside need to move there but if there were people there already who started small faith communities and lived with the people, were the people, and helped as they lived the life of the people – that would be it. But that is a long-haul solution, as any really good solution is. And we don’t like long haul.

Anyway, it would be interesting, as I said to her, if I met her when she did her volunteer work in Harlan – I’m pretty sure at my old church there. We’ll see. Peace to you.

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