(Note: it is never ‘my’ church….)

Although from an American perspective, I found this a really good article:-

http://thomrainer.com/2013/04/24/autopsy-of-a-deceased-church-11-things-i-learned/

Fascinating, but so sad. In particular these reasons (my comments in italics):-

The percentage of the budget for members’ …

I used part of this on Sunday. It is incredible to hear this from someone who is speaking from the top of the Roman Catholic Tradition:-

Here are a few extracts:-

I don’t particularly like ‘either/or’ typologies as often the real meaning is to be found in the shades of grey between. However, they can be useful in getting me to think. Ignore the jargon (‘missional’ broadly means that mission …

I was speaking to someone on Sunday. They had once been part of another church in another area of Britain. They said something like they left as they realised that when they were praying for the area that the church …

Last week we started ‘Christianity Explored’ at church. I admit it: I am not a fan of ‘out of the box’ courses and prefer something a little more contextual. Maybe it is not fully where I am theologically (and …