GospelGuild

their wagon mounted portrayals of the biblical story - the Medieval Mystery Plays. A Mustard Seed Order, for the technocratic metropolis? Zinzendorf was the stepfather of the Moravians - seed planters of the Great Awakening, through the conversion of Whitfield and the Wesleys. As a boy he formed the Order of the Mustard Seed, which grew to be a mighty tree, and a tree for the mighty, enrolling those who would be significant influential leaders in the later extension of the gospel: like the King of Denmark whose progeny would provide safe harbour and support to William Carey and his evangelization of India against the wishes of the British Empire. The GospelGuild

The Gospel Guild: a cadre of leaders in the city's professions and ministries and churches, dedicated to apprenticing future gospel leaders for the city. It will have three layers and multiple slices. The middle and most critical layer is what the Medieval Guilds called the Journeymen - trained up artisans who moved as work lead them around the workshops of the towns. In our context they are young professionals, graduates of universities and professional schools, plying their trade, trying to work out how the gospel applies in their work, and personal life. We might call them The Journeyers. They still need master craftsmen to learn from. These are the second, 'top' layer: seasoned professionals who have by the wisdom of others and their own experience lived the gospel in their vocation, able to teach and encourage Journeyers. Last, but not least, rather most importantly, is the third 'bottom' layer: students preparing themselves to graduate into professions.