Daryl Dash linked up this great quote a little while ago, and I am posting it here to remind myself of it for the future.
“We want ministry to be explained in terms that allow us to function as technicians, managers, or building contractors. We want a blueprint to build from and a list to […]

Alan Hirsch emailed me this great quote.
“We never have expected to hit upon that final stable structure. This is important for a church to understand, for when it starts to be the church it will be constantly be adventuring out into places where there are no tried and tested ways. If the church in our […]

I love change!
I get energised by change and love it when I am thinking or planning or guiding people through change. It is one of my key strengths as a leader - but it also has a down side.. This quote that I came across reminded me of that down side.
“We trained hard, but […]

“A church which pitches its tents without constantly looking out for new horizons, which does not continually strike camp, is being untrue to its calling…[We must] play down our ongoing for certainty, accept what is risky and live by improvisation and experiment”
Hans Kung, The Church as the People of God

What if there really is a great and good and kind God, and we humans really are God’s creatures, though we lose our way sometimes? And what if our deepest dream is really true, that the God who really exists really loves us? … And what if for every obvious and sleazy religious huckster there […]

This quote from the LIfe of Pi - a little book that I own but have not yet read was put up on Mike Todd’s blog. Shhh don’t tell my sister-in-law who have it to me for Chrstmas. I am posting it here - so I remember to read the book and reflect on the […]

I read this quote in the introduction to Steve Chalke’s faithworks - stories of hope.
“Bishop Leslie Newbigin once wrote:
Christian programmes for justice and compassion severed from their proper roots in the liturgical and sacramental life of the congregation lose their character as signs of the presence of Christ, and risk becoming mere crusades, fuelled by […]

“American pastors are abandoning their posts, left and right, and at an alarming rate. They are not leaving their churches and getting other jobs. Congregations still pay their salaries. Their names remain on the church stationary and they continue to appear in pulpits on Sundays. But they are abandoning their posts, their calling. They have […]

Jonny Baker posts up a great and challenging quote from howard snyder’s book liberating the church.
“The church gets in trouble whenever it thinks its in the church business rather than the Kingdom business. In the church business people are concerned with church activities, religious behaviour and spiritual things. In the Kingdom business people are concerned […]

NT Wright talks about the Church.
“According to the early Christians, the church doesn’t exist in order to provide a place where people can pursue their private spiritual agendas and develop their own spiritual potential. Nor does it exist in order to provide a safe haven in which people can hide from the wicked world and […]