Vision Sharing
Vision sharing night was pretty good, my only criticism is that Pete didnt tell us that he was going to give a hand out of all his answers, so there I was typing furiously all his answers, only to receive the hand out straight after!! The answers made a lot of sense to me, and the only things that I was still concerned about was:
- in trying to focus on Chinese people, is there a danger in losing focus on the non-Chinese people in our lives. In Pete's answer to FAQ3, he writes "the community closest to us... is not Milsons Point, but the Chinese community". That is true for many at CCC, but for me, I do need to work harder to notice the non-Chinese people around me, because racism in natural in man.
- If many of us at 5pm have non Chinese friends, or have a lot of them, then it would not possible to set up a ministry that caters to them at CCC. This might be hypothetical, but if say.. for 30% of 5pm people, they have a lot of Caucasian friends, and they wanted to start a "non-Asian bible study group", it seemed from Chris' answers, and Pete's FAQ4 ("You may not have many Chinese friends, but I certainly do"), that this group would not be welcomed under the vision. If we had enough white friends to reach a critical mass, why would such a project be neglected? Maybe we could start a 7:30 Eurasian service to suit all the "middle group" that we have (hypothetically, we probably dont have those numbers). At the same time, I think many 5pm people are being selfish in only thinking about the white/yellow distribution of their own friends, completely neglecting the people in the wider church. Our friends might be white, but the children of those in the morning congregation are all Chinese.
- if there is one criticism of the process, that is I think the time between when the rumours of the Vision first began til the vision sharing night seemed so long apart. Some people have been thinking about the vision for so long, when some of those thoughts about about vision were slightly misguided. For example, suggestions that whites would be shot or kicked out, or be made to feel like second class citizens are a bit ridiculous.
- in trying to focus on Chinese people, is there a danger in losing focus on the non-Chinese people in our lives. In Pete's answer to FAQ3, he writes "the community closest to us... is not Milsons Point, but the Chinese community". That is true for many at CCC, but for me, I do need to work harder to notice the non-Chinese people around me, because racism in natural in man.
- If many of us at 5pm have non Chinese friends, or have a lot of them, then it would not possible to set up a ministry that caters to them at CCC. This might be hypothetical, but if say.. for 30% of 5pm people, they have a lot of Caucasian friends, and they wanted to start a "non-Asian bible study group", it seemed from Chris' answers, and Pete's FAQ4 ("You may not have many Chinese friends, but I certainly do"), that this group would not be welcomed under the vision. If we had enough white friends to reach a critical mass, why would such a project be neglected? Maybe we could start a 7:30 Eurasian service to suit all the "middle group" that we have (hypothetically, we probably dont have those numbers). At the same time, I think many 5pm people are being selfish in only thinking about the white/yellow distribution of their own friends, completely neglecting the people in the wider church. Our friends might be white, but the children of those in the morning congregation are all Chinese.
- if there is one criticism of the process, that is I think the time between when the rumours of the Vision first began til the vision sharing night seemed so long apart. Some people have been thinking about the vision for so long, when some of those thoughts about about vision were slightly misguided. For example, suggestions that whites would be shot or kicked out, or be made to feel like second class citizens are a bit ridiculous.
posted by Pingu at 11/02/2005 02:59:00 pm
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