centrifugal forces

Here I am at the Covenant AGM in Portland, OR. Seems to me we're celebrating, rightly, each of our Affirmations at subsequent Annual Meetings, Midwinters etc. That's a good thing. Because each of the strategies I hear about ethnicity, evangelism, demographic targeting and so on - each would seem to pull us out from the center of our common focus, that is Christ.

pull us out from the center of our common focus

so I suggest we stimulate and generate
a) songs and hymns that focus on each of the Affirmations
b) opportunities for this material to be distributed and made available to other churches
c) education about the basic theological positions of the Affirmations, so that we can create vocabulary (i.e. "what do we mean by New Birth?")
d) reasonable standards of theology, musical composition, form and structure so that we hold ourselves accountable to inherited standards of integrity

and let's do it with all the enthusiasm and joy we can muster to move our denomination forward in a vital area of popular theology!