So, I’ve been thinking more about what my post last night – re: the starting point of church planting – individual or communal. Last night after the Greenhouse, on my 40+ minute drive back to Pasadena from Long Beach, I was listening to Doug Pagitt and Tony Jones on a CD from the Emergent Convention. Doug (I think) made the comment that we have traditionally our process is individual>communal>global (which is a bit what I sensed from the Greenhouse). He said Brian (I assume McLaren) was advocating the reverse – global>communal>individual. He (Doug) suggested we begin communal and it informs both global and individual. Intuitively the latter makes the most sense to me. Though I wonder how that works… How do you start reaching the community then allow that to change individuals and the larger global (regional?) community? Hummm… more thinking to do…