musings on ministry
We’re at a bit of a crossroads. There’s a lot of talk that rather than being a physical thing with digital extras the church will become a digital thing with physical extras. In America, when churches reopened only 35% of people came back… Here in Scotland, numbers will be limited to 50 with no Read More …
25 years ago, not so very far from here, the worst massacre since the holocaust took place in the little town of Srebrenica in Bosnia. More than 8,000 men and boys were killed and over the course of the war somewhere between 20-50,000 women and girls were raped. This week I spoke to my friend Read More …
The questions we ask expose our priorities. Are you the king of the Jews? That’s Pilate’s question to Jesus in John 18:28-40. That’s the only question that matters to a political governor. Are you a problem for me? But Pilate is asking the wrong questions… so Jesus asks some of his own. The exchange ends Read More …
It’s amazing how quickly time passes. I’ve been so busy studying and working that I’ve neglected this blog. I’m hoping to have much more time soon. I finish my course in a few weeks! In the meantime, have a dig about the archive. You never know what you might find!!!
Who am I? Who am I for? Why am I for them? There are questions that go to the very core of who we are. As we have already discussed the various generations might choose to answer these questions in quite different terms. Builders are for the country, the establishment. Boomers are for the kids, Read More …
In part one I thought about some of the sociological stuff around about generational characteristics and how they affect church. Part of the issue these generational characteristics presents is different answers to the question ‘Who are we?’. Even if each generation shares the same answer to that question the way they might express that is Read More …
This isn’t working! There, I’ve said it. I feel better already. I’ve been meaning to say it for a long time – in fact I can’t remember a time in the last 30 years when I haven’t thought it. Oh – it’s the Church I’m talking about, by the way. ‘The Emporer’s New Church’ by Read More …