musings on ministry
Over the past few days I’ve been thinking about men. A lot. That’s not something I do very often. It’s also something that people in churches don’t do enough of. This consideration of the male of the species was as part of my training for ministry and was hugely challenging. To get us thinking we Read More …
When I don’t write often I find it hard to write often. Does that make sense? Writing is a habit. It takes practice and persistence. At least that’s what I find. I’ve been a bit out of practice recently. I tell myself I’ve been busy, and that’s true, but it’s not an excuse. Not really. Read More …
I’ve been thinking a bit more about the Recovery Model as a helpful tool for churches. In this post I will consider three of the elements, that recovery: is a journey rather than a destination does not necessarily mean getting back to where you were before happens in ‘fits and starts’ and, like life, has Read More …
What’s missing today is a high-quality discourse on rethinking the design and evolution of the entire system from scratch. The quality of the results produced by any system depends on the quality of awareness from which the people in the system operate. (Otto Scharmer) Since writing the first batch of posts on Missing Generations I’ve Read More …
… and the big story of God. For example, when we celebrate communion I’m fairly sure that most people don’t know the wider context of that. Can this week’s gospel (John talking more about blood and flesh) be understood without knowing about Passover and the Levitical laws and kosher practice? But we are not Jews Read More …
What if over the past 50 years an organisation had lost the majority of its members? What should it do? What should it change? The decline in membership of the church in the UK has been well documented and plenty of words have been used on diagnosing the problem but I wonder how much time Read More …
“What kind of a man is a man who does not try to make the world a better place?” Balian in Kingdom of Heaven This week the lectionary takes us to the feeding of the 5,000 (plus women and children). I’ve been wondering about the story all week, particularly verse 16. Jesus Feeds the Five Read More …