The project took a very concrete step forward today. Last night i talked with wei-erh on the phone (he's the president of the UNI Nav's) and he gave his blessing to continue bringing a project of campus Christian unity forward and to flesh out and write down some of the ideas we had talked about.
he also gave a lot of good concerns as far as theology, leadership, and jurisdiction go and i've been writing down what i feel is the best way to organize a committee to oversee inter-ministry events and projects.
of course, it can't be my best way, it needs to be God's way and so we've been praying about this the whole way through. i just hope the direction we're taking is the one God wants us to take. even if we crash and burn, that'll just show it wasn't God's will yet and i'll have tried, and probably be humbler if not anything else.
as of right now, this project has defined limits, rules of process, and the definition and role of member organizations. i'm still working on what theology should define which organizations participate. and i think so far a general agreement on the Nicene Creed of 381 is a good beginning point. it's hard to separate essential from non-essential doctrine, and even harder to convince whole organizations of this.
i still need to meet with Shannon, the UNI Navs staff leader, and i want to meet with Scott, who's the UNI staff member on the committee that runs BASIC, an already existing inter-organization weekly worship ministry (and the largest gathering of Christians weekly on campus). we might even be able to run this whole thing through the BASIC framework and connections, but just in case God doesn't want to be limited by that, i think we need to move in that direction slowly (if at all).
later, once the rough draft is approved by wei-erh, i'll post it up so you can see what we've decided on structurally.
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