Category: post lockdown
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Don’t Take A Census?
Leaders want to assess their strengths – but when King David called a census it was an offence to God, resulting in an awful judgement for the community. What lessons can we learn from this today?
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The Shaking Is Not Over
I don’t believe the shaking is over. The recent impact of COVID19 has caused many nations, institutions and individuals to be significantly shaken – and although we are seeing countries incrementally open up again, the new practises we have been asked to adopt would have been unthinkable 12 months ago. This global ‘earthquake’ has had…
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Deo Volente
We used to think the future was fairly predictable and made our plans accordingly – but thanks to a global pandemic and its’ significant aftershocks, we are now finding it a challenge to plan just a few months ahead. Some of us had become very accustomed to filling our diaries and wall charts with hopes…
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How To Win Every Social Media Argument
When I was in my teens there was a game we would often play at our youth club. The leader would ask a question and give two potential answers. The answers would be represented by two opposite sides of the room and we had to choose which we would run to as our way of…
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How Wrong I Was
As 2020 approached I had such an expectation in my spirit about the impending 12 months ahead. It felt like I was bubbling with a prophetic sense that something ‘new’ was about to happen in the church and this theme was reinforced by a number of respected and trusted guest speakers we had invited. I…
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Who misses our singing most – us or God?
Our worship is for the audience of one – but is that ‘one’ me or God? My last post entitled ‘losing our song’ found much resonance but also evoked some debate about the rights of the church to express our worship in song. I don’t want to recycle that conversation but instead build on it…
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Losing Our Song
I lost my sight once. I couldn’t see anything. This highly valued sense which had helped guide me through many adventures had temporarily left me. In a similar way churches have recently lost some abilities which we greatly value. The inability to meet together is gradually easing but now we are facing restrictions on singing…
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Fully Charged For The Season Ahead
I have found recent months to be really tiring and I don’t admit this lightly. I don’t really like talking about my own tiredness as a ‘shepherd’ – I want to focus on the needs of the ‘sheep’ and they have all been through so much this year, but I think it’s important to be…
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