Nomad, Christian community, mission and the future of the church.

On this month's program, Tim meets Ian Mobsby from the Moot-New monastic community in London.

The rest of us will have a chat as we reflect on what Ian has to say.

It's all coming up over the next 45 minutes or so on Nomad podcast, I'm back in London again, this time to meet up with Ian Mobsby of the Moot community.

Now, Ian, for those of you out there who may not have heard of moot or read your books, how would you describe yourself?

I would describe myself as someone who's passionate about mission.

I would talk about passionate Christian,

but very much wanting to explore what does it mean to be Christian in the third millennium.

And a lot of the books I've been exploring, well, actually, practically, how do we engage with living in increasingly a post-secular culture where many people are now interested in spirituality rather than religion?

So a lot of what I'm about is it's been exploring how do you do new forms of church in a new culture.

So first question then to kind of kick off, why do you think we need new forms of church?

What is it that you've seen in culture that makes you think we need to do something different?

Well, roughly every 500 years, there is a major epoch of social change.

And we see that if you look at history, you'd see that the last one was at the time of the Reformation,

and before that you would see it at the time of the split between the East and Western churches.

Now, the last point of Reformation was in response to a culture of modernity,

where the development of the printing press led to a cultural revolution of the word and the rise of the scientific method.

So it changed culture into a profoundly scientific and irrational culture.

Now, what we see at the end of the 20th century, at the beginning of the 21st is another cultural change and that has been

driven again by information technology by the internet that has driven a new cultural sensibility

and what that's kind of looks like it looks increasingly like a group of people who are post-secular

who are exploring all sorts of new approaches to spirituality.

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