Tag: community
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Are we efficiently miserable? Relational breakdown vs the Kingdom story
Sometimes it’s hard to see what the goal of human progress is. As technology develops, we’re doing things quicker and more efficiently than ever before, but at what cost? We’re bugged by constant reminders and notifications. We have advanced technological systems to keep us in line and ‘on track’ but what’s it all for? We…
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Picture This Thought – All sorts [The body of Christ]
A 3-minute reflection on the community of the church as the Body of Christ, valuing everyone and loving our enemies. For more about the politics of enemy love, I recommend ‘Sympathy For Jonah‘ by David Benjamin Blower.
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Picture This Thought – Meal [Food]
We live in a world of fast food, drive throughs, TV dinners, working lunches and meals in a shake. But what if eating is meant to be a much more spiritual experience? In this short reflection, I consider the importance of mealtimes in the early church, in Jewish history and in our own lives as…
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Bountiful conference: Transforming others through our gifts
This weekend I had the privilege of speaking at the Bountiful Women’s conference in Sevenoaks. My workshop was entitled ‘Transforming others through our gifts’ and we looked at some key biblical principles regarding gifts and well as women using their gifts in mission from the early church in the gospels and Acts, through church history…
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Sharing our faith together
I recently did a seminar at the annual TfT conference on the topic of sharing our faith with our gay friends. One of the things that I’m particularly excited about is sharing my faith in community, so here are some thoughts on that. Evangelism is a team sport. There are three key reasons why sharing…
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Sharing life together
As conservative evangelicals we sometimes criticise non-Bible-teaching churches for being ‘just a social club’, but isn’t there also a danger that church sometimes isn’t enough of a social club? Part of church should be really enjoying being together, having a laugh, sharing experiences, eating together, catching up on news, caring, praying, crying and celebrating together.…
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