Note: This post was automatically imported from Substack. The import process is not perfect, so please excuse any missing / broken links or images. Rethinking Church, part six If you had to pick one word to sum up what church gatherings were all about, what would you choose? I suspect many would plump for ‘worship,’ but…

Note: This post was automatically imported from Substack. The import process is not perfect, so please excuse any missing / broken links or images. Rethinking Church, part five In this part of the ‘rethinking church’ series, we finally reach the purpose of church gatherings. Why do we get together, and what should our gatherings look like?…

Note: This post was automatically imported from Substack. The import process is not perfect, so please excuse any missing / broken links or images. Rethinking Church, part four I have spoken here several times about how I am no longer in a regular church denomination or attend traditional ‘church’. Instead, for the last 2-3 years, a…

Note: This post was automatically imported from Substack. The import process is not perfect, so please excuse any missing / broken links or images. We’ll give you every support, short of actual help… Dear children, let us not love with words or speech but with actions and in truth. 1 John 3:18 Over the last few…

Note: This post was automatically imported from Substack. The import process is not perfect, so please excuse any missing / broken links or images. Rethinking Church, part three War… huh… yeahWhat is it good for?Absolutely nothing! Edwin Starr – War (1970) Last week, in my ‘Rethinking Church’ series, I wrote about church leadership. I said there…

Note: This post was automatically imported from Substack. The import process is not perfect, so please excuse any missing / broken links or images. Taking church back to the drawing board: Part Two In the first part of this mini-series, I spoke about how we have a window of opportunity at the moment to totally rethink…

Note: This post was automatically imported from Substack. The import process is not perfect, so please excuse any missing / broken links or images. If there’s a problem with the way churches are today, what should they be like? On the podcast recently I talked about the work of Dr Tom Wadsworth, a Biblical scholar who…

This piece was automatically imported from Substack. This process is not perfect, so please excuse any broken / missing links or images. What does that mean about how we live? Sometimes I have an idea for a topic to write about, and then shortly afterwards I see someone else has written about almost that exact…

This piece was automatically imported from Substack. This process is not perfect, so please excuse any broken / missing links or images. There is something more important than assent to a set of doctrinal positions Earlier this week, I recorded a video for my other channel (Understand the Bible) about denominations. It goes into a…