Friendship is an ecclesial category
Jesus didn't call his disciples servants. He called them friends. And Stu thinks that matters more for how we do church than most ecclesiology conversations acknowledge.
Joel, Stu and Tim are working through the emerging themes of Stu's PhD — and theme three is an ecclesiology of friendship and intergenerational family. Why friendship is a legitimate theological category, not just a social preference. Why industrialised schooling has trained us to only be friends with people our age, and what we lose when church reproduces that model. Why young people being listened to isn't a nicety but a…
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