SUNDAY

Thankful for your responses, I felt triggered to add and continue this blog! The weekend so far went OK. The challenge ahead is to produce the results of the survey carried out in 2005 in Cochabamba, for what some work has been already done. The main point is that the final chapter of the thesis should show the usefulness of a food frequency questionnaire that we developped. The results so far (preliminary) are very good and promising, at least they are reasonable.

I am being also very much impacted by the concept of CHURCH AS BEING CULTURALLY RELEVANT FOR THIS GENERATION. If one makes a very objective observation, even if in many places churches are full of people, there is a kind of dryness. Younger people are not being attracted to church. I remember that 20 yrs ago, the challenge of the Kingdom Theology in Bolivia really attracted many of us, and little by little a whole generations of teeners became christians, and for the majority, they remain as believers.

Those days there were some aspects that were relevant, if I can recall:
- God's presence that could be "felt".
- Music: absolutely rebell or at least not the traditional churchy songs.
- Order, boundaries, discipline and a sense of belonging.
- Challenges towards evangelisation and affecting the society.

But now I feel often unable to communicate with the following generations, and I am not so old! In many places, it seems that those who were young church leaders, that are getting older, simply forgot the freshness and how to interchange ideas with the youth.

God is indeed calling the Church of this generation to be culturally relevant and preach the gospel, without compromise of principles ... apparently an unattainable goal.

BE blessed!