Church as we know it is past its sell-by date, says Chris Neal, Rector of St Mary's, Thame. And it seems that people all over the Western world think so, too. Neal goes on to quote a figure of 53,000 who leave church every week - leave church, but do not abandon faith...
Five years ago we developed three statements which have informed what we’ve done since then: from programmes to people; from organisation to organism; from grind to gifting...
"I believe we are going through a big cultural and social paradigm shift and that we should be aware of that," Neal suggests. "The cultural shift is about community, it’s about open-ended questions, it’s about discovering the answer for ourselves."
Very good thoughts on ministry!
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