And the I'm going to do. Hello, and around the raw listeners my name is

Preston Sprinkle and this is Park 5 of the what is church series what is church

what we're doing here in the series I haven't done one of these in a

while but what I've been doing is going through various values that me and some

friends have been trying to hammer out with regard to our very fresh and

interesting and messy and kind of different church plant that we're doing here

in Boise.

I tell people, you know, they ask me, are you planning a church?

I said, well, it's more of a church experiment than a church plant.

For many years, I've sort of been thinking about what church should be, what church can be, and

just collecting my thoughts, researching, writing, talking to people, visiting different churches, and I would say this church experiment, in many ways is a byproduct of 15 plus years of reflection of thinking of you know wondering in the back of my mind is

this just some idealistic thing that I'm envisioning or can it actually work on the

ground and so having waited can it actually work on the ground?

And so having waited 15 years to see which one of those conclusions is correct,

whether it's just an idea that doesn't work on the ground or no,

this could actually work on the ground or no this could actually work in the ground

after 15 years reflected on that we are actually doing it. We're about three months into it.

Although I've spent the last month in Australia, I'm recording this from my final days in Australia, although by the time

you listen to this I'll probably be back in the States if my plane didn't crash or if we

didn't get you know lost on an island on the way from Sydney to LAX. And so I think the church is still in existence.

I think they're doing okay. They are. I get the emails I've been talking to people so

yes church is still going strong three months strong but

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