Lifelight Church

Have you heard anyone say "I'm not religious. But I'm spiritual." From Shaolin monks to Nacho Libre, monks for most people today are cool. Their subversive way of life is intriguing, desirable and respected. Christianity actually has a long tradition of monks. At our very beginning, we lived a subversive way of life that to people of the first few centuries, was intriguing, desirable and respected. In 1935, Dietrich Bonhoeffer challenged the Church that "...the restoration of the church will surely come only from a new type of monasticism." The question then is; how can we monk the church? Well, it starts from learning from those who went before us. In part 3 of Life With Us, we'll examine some of the most precious Christian traditions: Celtic, Benedictine, Ignatian, Franciscan and of course, Wesleyan - the deep well of tradition from which we can draw.