musings on leadership in ministry
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 …
‘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 that I haven’t thought it. Oh- it’s the Church I’m talking about by the way!’ A few years ago I started a Read More …
I’m preaching on Sunday and my theme is ‘becoming more like Christ’. When I first got the theme a while ago I have to say that I was kind of stuck. It is one of those topics that seems like a gift but when you get down to it what does it really mean to Read More …
The question is Jesus’. He asks it to Peter but I wonder if we, the church, were to ask the same question of our communities what kind of answer we might get? I noticed on Question Time on BBC the other night someone referred to Britain as a ‘Christian country’ before launching into a tirade about 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 …