Showing posts with label Back to Church. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Back to Church. Show all posts
Tuesday, 24 August 2010
The definitive version
This is the Adelaide Diocese you Tube for Sunday September 12 when everyone is invited to "Come as you are!!"
Any Church near you!
Monday, 14 September 2009
They came they saw!!!
Well Back to Church Sunday came and went. It was good that there was some, small response. And they were a mixture of people. My first thought was (thank you God!!) well of course this is something that needs to be there every week and need to be part of our mindset.
As always with church, what ever the games we play...ie. like marketing, evangelism, teaching, promotion, bums on seats...etc The real focus is the people. They are always worthwile, and each of them from the youngest to the oldest was indeed that.
Worth doing? Yes.
As always with church, what ever the games we play...ie. like marketing, evangelism, teaching, promotion, bums on seats...etc The real focus is the people. They are always worthwile, and each of them from the youngest to the oldest was indeed that.
Worth doing? Yes.
Wednesday, 26 August 2009
back to the past
The curiously named "Back to Church Sunday" will be held on September 13, and it was quite heartening to see that driving up Unley Road this morning a huge banner was being put up stretching across the road advertising the fact.
The single mosty frequent comment from church people is that they don't like the name. And perhaps its subtitle "come as you are" is a happier concatenation of ideas.
I have some mixed feeling about it. Theer are after all a lot of people who don't come to church who did come ten, twenty, thirty years ago. We sometimes talk about these people as though they stopped coming to church yesterday. When I came here I was told that E was 'the hall booking lady'. As far as I could tell she had moved out of the parish some years before, but still continued with her mundane task. There are many curiosities like this
I have long felt that we are misguided if we think that trying to encourage those who no longer come is the best way to go, many of those people for example have stopped comign to church by choice not be accident. It is part of the way we don't take responsibility for what happens in our churches. How many times have I sat in a discussion about outreach and evangelism only to hear it turn to blaming those who don't come for their failure to respond.
Any way, we are accepting this opportunity for what it is. It may allow some people to join us for worship on 13th September (contact me if you would like to)
The single mosty frequent comment from church people is that they don't like the name. And perhaps its subtitle "come as you are" is a happier concatenation of ideas.
I have some mixed feeling about it. Theer are after all a lot of people who don't come to church who did come ten, twenty, thirty years ago. We sometimes talk about these people as though they stopped coming to church yesterday. When I came here I was told that E was 'the hall booking lady'. As far as I could tell she had moved out of the parish some years before, but still continued with her mundane task. There are many curiosities like this
I have long felt that we are misguided if we think that trying to encourage those who no longer come is the best way to go, many of those people for example have stopped comign to church by choice not be accident. It is part of the way we don't take responsibility for what happens in our churches. How many times have I sat in a discussion about outreach and evangelism only to hear it turn to blaming those who don't come for their failure to respond.
Any way, we are accepting this opportunity for what it is. It may allow some people to join us for worship on 13th September (contact me if you would like to)
And I am sorry for all those who still feel hurt by events of the past, or the cliquish nature of the church, or who just think church has lost the (Christian) plot.
You are welcome. And just come as you are!
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