10 on the Army

Re-imagining The Salvation Army for the 21st century

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o we truly understand who we are as a people, and whom we are called to as a church? Are we truly children of the tradition in The Salvation Army who have taken seriously the prophetic calling of our movement in the shaping of our own fields of perception and system of language? Can we, with proper urgency, discern and articulate the points of incongruity of our church in the culture of society and the culture of the wider church, regardless of the cost?

I believe that if the Salvation Army is not willing to reengage the world prophetically and speak prophetically within the Church, then there is no practical use for us as a distinct people of God and no compelling reason for our continued existence.

The author, Geoff Ryan, is co-founder and publisher of theRubicon and coordinator of the 614 Network. Geoff and his family work in Regent Park, a social housing project in downtown Toronto, Canada.

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