ecclesiology of a cohort

sshh, as sam mentioned, there was another one of those movements again as a cohort in nashville gathered. sam was not there, but his non 'emo' wife lynnette covered for him (as always). jonathon was also in absentia which made dixon sad, i think i saw a tear. however, he was given words of encouragement from jim, one of his mentors, 'cry not you will emergent.' so he pressed on. jay was there embrace dixon, but he didn't understand the force, empathize he couldn't. dixon took in comfort food & was sustained enough, open the meeting he did.

so as the usual suspects gathered.

thomas brought an offering plate, a subtle way to say 'this is a stick up!' because he wore a collar of authority we gladly gave over our earthly belongings (atleast the kind that fit in your pocket). kevin, the resident 'emo,' overshared about throwing up all night because he is ambitious and wants to fix his minivan by himself. kay showed up to make sure that her husband jay didn't say anything silly that she would later have to deprogram the nashville community from. in an interview with the city paper she said "i am way to busy to keep doing interventions & deprogramming on the expansive universal universe kingdom theory of God. i figure it's easier and less time consuming to be proactive, plus it allows me opportunities to practice my 'be quiet stares'." adam apparently is still hesistant about the group, potentially has problems with emergent cohort meetings as he was packing a knife (i hope this has nothing to do with him being the lone baptist)... luckily it was the only earthly possession he had in his pockets so he had to give to thomas. we breathed a sigh of relief. clark was quiet. apparently he is loosing his hearing taking calls for the publishing house. when asked questions he'd respond with a blanket 'yes sir' or 'no ma'am.' tim was there to help clark, apparently being a part of the publishing house as well, he's sensitive to plight of clark.

as the eclectic group gathered we split into two groups and discussed ecclesiology.. atleast that was what we were supposed to talk about. when we gathered back together it was apparent that jay was forcing jim to answer questions comparing and contrasting star trek and star wars. jim being a follower of the socratic method tried to answer the questions with a question. dixon still rattled that jonathon was in absentia was unable to form intelligible sentences by the end of the meeting. lynnette and kay, the only ones of sane mind did not entertain jay or jim. tim, shook his head expecting the talk to turn to pokemon'. later confessed, if then started talking battlestar galactica then he would have enjoyed it more. in the other group kevin ran out the door saying he was late to work. the tennessean though has pictures of him throwing up again around the corner. we talked about artwork, how we all love alter calls, and how young the umc is... feeling that the worlds problems were solved we said our good-byes.

shhh.. don't tell, but one day we'll get this right.