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Modern Life is Rubbish

My friend Ian has just posted a passionate plea to live differently. He writes, “I do not want to accommodate the consumer society – I want to change it. I want to live differently, and to raise my...

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Teams, Walls and Transitions

Marcus Honeysett has a great article on community and the role of the leader. He writes, “Congregations want and need leaders who are open, vulnerable and authentic. People who know them and are known...

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Leaders, We Need to Get Out of the Way

On a similar vein to the previous post, this time Todd Hiestand illustrates why we need teams of leaders not single leaders and why community is great. He writes, “When someone stands up and advocates...

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Britain: Not a trusting nation

According to some new reports Britain is one of the least trusting nations in Europe, for some interesting reflections have a read of Mark Easton’s blog on the BBC. This stood out “researchers suggest...

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How many blogs do you read?

I guess like many of you I use a RSS reader (Google Reader in my case) and it’s easy to just continuously add blogs to your reading list. I tend to scan and skim a lot, looking for something to catch...

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Contentment and Community

Colin Beavan is No Impact Man, one of the top sustainable living bloggers and recently he’s written a couple of posts that have made me think. This one community and this on contentment. He’s searching...

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Paul Tripp on: Community (& Marriage)

A great quote here from Paul Tripp: “I’m more and more persuaded as I study Scripture that my life is intended by God to be a community project. We were designed to live in community – first, community...

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Convergence (3)

Here’s a few convergences noted from my blog reading while I’ve been away. Community – Tim Chester, Glen Scrivener, Christine Sine Treasures on earth or heaven? – McFlurry, Dave Bish, Tim Challies,...

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Milton Avenue

It’s a shame on churches all across the country that when someone wants to build community in our nation they turn to a credit card company for help. Should be our job. Still anything that does that is...

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Eden Project/MasterCard Big Lunch – Milton Avenue

It’s a shame on churches all across the country that our nation needs a credit card company to foster community. Still anything that does that is a good thing. Why not consider joining in

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Terry Virgo: on Community

This is from his foreword to Dave Stroud’s Planting Churches, Changing Communities “Church planting is not simply a matter of getting a number of individuals saved; it is about the advance of God’s...

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Book Review: A meal with Jesus

Do you find it difficult to find time to spend with people from church or your non-Christian friends? If the answer is yes, then Tim Chester has the answer. Eat with them. If you immediately think...

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Life Together: Community

This is the first in a series, taking an in-depth review of Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s classic, Life Together (The Day with Others, The Day Alone, Ministry, Confession & Communion). What is the church...

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Life Together: Ministry

This is the fourth in a series, taking an in-depth look at Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s classic, Life Together (Community, The day with others, The Day Alone, Confession & Communion). Bonhoeffer opens...

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The gym has replaced the church as the place to belong

For a significant part of human history the church, mosque, synagogue, temple or shrine has been at the centre of community life. The life of the tribe revolved around these places of meeting. The...

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Making your church a place to belong

Yesterday I shared an article about how the gym (or fitness group) has replaced church for many as the go-to place when they’re looking for a place to belong. We live in an age of fragmentation and...

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How is a church on mission organised?

I’ve long been helped, inspired and encouraged by the teaching of Jeff Vanderstelt. I must have saved about 30 articles that I went through yesterday as I thought through being a church on mission....

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6 tips to engage your community online

At Grace Church, even though we’re just a small church, we work hard at building community online and offline. We encourage engagement primarily using Facebook group and WhatsApp. Here’s our six tips –...

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The church & the search for happiness in an ocean of loneliness

It is a well-documented fact that Christianity in the West has been on a decades long march from the centre to the fringes of society. What’s now apparent (and is something of a surprise to some...

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Rediscovering Hospitality

In Japan lonely senior citizens (especially women) are shoplifting in search of the community and stability of jail. From 1980 to 2015, the number of seniors living alone in Japan increased more than...

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