A very, very practical and helpful post from Colin Marshall which is archived on the Briefing/Matthias Media site. These ten questions are the application/discussion points of the article. They cover a sense of ministry and mission which I hope we can further develop at mgpc next year. Why think about where to sit in church? …

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Lula Bell the camel stumbles and falls into the congregation during a Christmas pageant in a US church. The pastor responsible is blaming the camel’s knee. The camel involved is probably blaming the pastor’s lack of knowledge about what’s appropriate for a church service. Apparently no camels or congregants were harmed. A report from Melbourne’s …

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Trevin Wax writes about the counter-productivity of building a church identity around barrier-building preferential distinctions instead of the barrier destroying power of the Gospel. Wax provides a couple of fictitious examples of people who identify with the contrasting preferential distinctions of their home churches but share common uncertain experiences when it comes time to find …

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