Discernming the people, the communities and the church we are called to be at this time and place
Discernming the people, the communities and the church we are called to be at this time and place
A group of ladies were making their way towards us along the corridor, a little unsteadily, led by care assistants. We’d started the worship-service-cum-hymn-singalong in the second floor lounge while they made their way up from the bottom floor: it…
It was a joy to see our church members serving the punters at the Flower Show. It’s not part of our church culture or tradition to be so ‘out there’ in terms of pointing to an invisible Other. Our congregations…
The task of mission in our time is to say something true about the nature of God and what it is to be a disciple of Jesus. That’s what I think, anyway, at the moment. Gospel cocktails allow people to…
I am zinging with the success of our church-run cocktail bar. It’s fair to say cocktails have never been part of church culture. But why not claim them as such? They are, after all, intended as an appetiser… a drink…
Does it matter how people hear the gospel? Someone asked me recently why I don’t simply come straight out with a presentation of the Christian faith to the people I meet, describing an occasion when he’d done just that. Out…