leadership in ministry
I’ve been out on the road with my colleagues (and Hospital Corners for one night only) challenging church people to think about the question ‘For what shall we be known?’ It has been fascinating to hear what people around Scotland aspire to and also the things that they think hold them back from being the church that Read More …
I was working with a small group of people gathered from a number of churches recently and the subject to members and money came up. We were talking about how churches could enable new congregations to form and flourish within their church but that these fledgling groups would perhaps need their support to get established. For Read More …
What’s so wrong with churches that serve a a particular group of people? Why isn’t there a youth church in each town? A church for elderly people (ok maybe there is one of these most places!), a children’s church… Does the church suffer from trying to be all things to all people? The churches that Read More …
Do we meet God outside of the church? I’m sure we do. I experience God in all sorts of places. In my work I often ask people where they feel close to God and almost all of them talk of places other than a church building. Not that they don’t ever feel God’s presence in Read More …
‘Evangelical’ is a word that seems to make people either quake or rejoice because it is a word that seems to have become interchangeable with ‘conservative’, particularly in theological circles. I don’t get that. Evangelical simply means telling someone about something else, particularly if the thing being told about is life-changing. So why the association Read More …