Kester Brewin - Pirates and the Death of the Emerging Church (N28)
Nomad Podcast
Tim Nash
4.7 • 658 Ratings
🗓️ 10 September 2010
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Kester Brewin is one of the pioneers of the alternative worship scene in the UK and one of the founding members of the Vaux community. His book The Complex Christ was hailed as one of the most important texts on the emerging church movement. We talk to Kester about what the emerging church can learn from pirates, and the importance of churches being temporary places.
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| 0:00.0 | Nomad, Christian community, mission and the future of the church. |
| 0:16.0 | On this month's show, I'll be chatting to Kester Bruin about pirates, Taz and the end of the Emerging Church. So why don't you pop the kettle on and settle down for another 45 minutes or so |
| 0:25.5 | with Nomad Podcast. |
| 0:35.0 | On this month's Nomad podcast, I'm speaking to one of the leading voices in the UK Emerging Church |
| 0:40.5 | Conversation, Kester Bruin. Kester is the author of the acclaimed the Complex Christ and more |
| 0:45.6 | recently, Other. Kester, welcome to the show. Thank you very much. Great to be on. |
| 0:50.6 | Could you begin by just telling us a little bit about yourself and what led you into the world of the emerging church? |
| 0:56.5 | Well, I'm a teacher. I teach mathematics at a secondary school in South East London. |
| 1:01.6 | I've been teaching for about 10 years and got two children. |
| 1:07.5 | And a while ago, I was at one of the, well, many years ago now, |
| 1:12.1 | I was at a very, very large church in South London, |
| 1:15.2 | lots of very successful people, you know, |
| 1:18.0 | all turning up 600 of us every Sunday evening |
| 1:21.6 | for a great kind of shindig of guitar-led worship and so on. |
| 1:25.1 | And I looked around and saw all these people who were writers and |
| 1:29.1 | filmmakers and dancers and all the rest of it. And thought, well, why are these gifts not |
| 1:35.3 | being represented in the worship that we're doing? You know, it seems extraordinary that all |
| 1:41.1 | these talented people and it boils down to preaching and playing an acoustic |
| 1:44.2 | guitar. So I asked the vicar about it with a couple of people. He was actually very, very good. |
| 1:49.4 | He said, or maybe once every six months we could do something. But that wasn't really |
| 1:53.9 | satisfactory. So myself and a friend and a few others set up what we called Vox, with no great spiritual reason other than it |
| 2:03.6 | was in Vauxhall in London, took over in the evenings once a month, a huge Victorian barn of a church |
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