Here’s An Interesting NEW Way To Think About The Church
“Bounded Set” Church vs “Centred Set” Church
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6 min readOct 4, 2023
In this post, I want to discuss a model which I find helpful — one which I came across quite a few years ago when I took a sabbatical and spent much of those three months exploring new models of what it means to “be church” for our world today.
Introducing “Bounded Set” and “Centred Set”
What? Well, this idea originates in Mathematics.
No — don’t “switch off”. I’ll explain it as simply as I can…
Consider a bounded set such as “All whole numbers fewer than ten.”
Deciding whether ANY number is part of that bounded set is easy.
Seven is part of that set. And so is four.
But fourteen is not — and never can be — part of a set defined as “Whole numbers less than ten.”
Still with me? OK, let’s switch to the centred set. In this set, we define numbers by their relationship to a fixed point.
