Items about the Church
This was the psalmist’s cry; “you are my Lord; I have no good apart from you” (Psalm 16:2) So, now church buildings are shut, what should we do? Most people are throwing themselves into technology to make ways of creating ‘virtual church’. After all, we are commanded not to neglect meeting together. But, something niggles …
In a time of fear and real suffering, when deaths that any other year would have been largely invisible are counted daily before our eyes, we need to remember the suffering and death of our Lord. It changes everything.
When you fear for those you love, but cant visit them Hannah, who loved Samuel greatly as the child of her old age, has much to share with us. Sit with her awhile
The things that God calls us to are feelings, but they are also choices. You can put them on just as you chose what to wear when you get up each day. God is calling us to make the choices that he makes and put on Christ.
What is it that God is doing as he shakes the Church free from its lethargy and its slavery? We are being challenged to change and grow. It may seem like pressure from the world or finance, but God is in it – even if it feels like we are leaving comfortable behind to go …
In the challenges of renewal and transformation, that are facing many churches, there is s sense of something new, and something very old. We should not present the changes that are happening as modernising the church.
It is a caricature, but for many people Church is as something external and provided; something that you can attend, go to, support, work for. There are all sorts of historical reasons for this; the separation of laity and clergy (with a dependence on clergy for all that matters); the historical creation of dedicated buildings …
At the recent Roadshow, Bp Philip, introduced his main priorities as the new Bishop of Truro Diocese. I thought that others might appreciate hearing them.
It is often said that the Church is like a Wheelbarrow; it doesn’t move unless you push it. Unfortunately this is often true. But what can be done about it.
