I want to say a few words now about how our Doctrine of Creation and the Fall affects our approach to Apologetics. Creation reveals God and leaves us without excuse This theme is picked up particularly by the Apostle Paul in Acts 14, Acts 17 and Romans 1. In Acts 14, Paul and Barnabas prayContinue reading “Creation, evangelism and apologetics”
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After COVID – let’s not forget about evangelism
During COVID-19 lockdowns, churches were forced to make greater use of online provision. Most saw significant engagement with their output beyond their regular congregations. Of course, early figures may have eld to false optimism, once we had accounted for people clicking on and off links and other Christians “church surfing” the numbers weren’t as hugeContinue reading “After COVID – let’s not forget about evangelism”
Vaccine Passports – what are our priorities?
There’s ongoing debate about the pros and cons of Vaccine passports. The concerns are particularly coming from those who see such measures as an assault on individual liberties. This means that we’ve seen some Christian leaders speaking out against them. The fear cited is that such measures will lead to people being excluded from churchContinue reading “Vaccine Passports – what are our priorities?”
The census that matters
It’s census day in the UK. The idea is that every decade, each household must complete a form declaring who is at the address on the day, their race, gender, religion etc. The data is used for planning and policy making purposes as part of public life. It also is eventually released online and canContinue reading “The census that matters”
Recovering Apologetics
I want to highlight three things that have stood out about the current apologetics movement recently. The first is well publicised, which is the fall from grace of prominent apologist Ravi Zacharias. The fall started when it was discovered that he had misled about his academic qualifications and when information began to come out aboutContinue reading “Recovering Apologetics”
How to listen to evangelistic sermons (when you already are a Christian)
At any one time in a gathering there will be Christians and non-Christians present. This presents the preacher with a challenge. Does he primarily focus on preaching to the Christians to edify and build them up or does he focus on evangelising the enquirers. Either way, he risks leaving part of the audience behind. OrContinue reading “How to listen to evangelistic sermons (when you already are a Christian)”
Relax, refresh, restart
I’ve been writing a few articles about churches and life after lockdown. In them, I’ve included some potentially provocative comments about traditional midweek church ministries. Please don’t get me wrong on this. I’m not saying that you must never run these activities. I simply have a twofold point. The first is that a lot ofContinue reading “Relax, refresh, restart”
So why run clubs and toddlers’ groups?
I’ve written a couple of articles recently about our outreach post COVID. I’ve suggested that we might want to revisit some of our weekday programmes. That’s partly because I suspect there will be a nervousness about attending such events for a while, and indeed, the suggestion that social distancing measures will be needed until wellContinue reading “So why run clubs and toddlers’ groups?”
COVID and Cold Contact Evangelism
I’ve been writing about how we go about building back our outreach as we move out of lockdown. In a recent post, I wrote that I didn’t think we should rush to put back some of of our traditional outreach ministries such as children’s clubs and Toddlers groups. The reason for this is that weContinue reading “COVID and Cold Contact Evangelism”
Building back better -discipleship after lockdown
Some of our churches are going to need to do some building back after lockdown. I’ve mentioned before that I don’t think that we were pandemic proof and so COVID-19 hit us like a full on Tsumani. Yet, in many respects, what the pandemic took out for our churches was not the real stuff. WeContinue reading “Building back better -discipleship after lockdown”
