Not often I agree whole heartedly with Angela at The Kneeler blog but I like her take today on Christian unity.
I think this week is the week of prayer Christian unity but its one of those events I really can't get my head around. It seems to excite the church bureaucrats and all the rest of us have to pay lip service to it. Why not just get on and proclaim the Gospel? I don't want to belong to one massive holy empire - all the evidence is that big churches just become part of the problem, not the answer.
And I notice that when we speak of ecumenicism in our denomination its all about unity with the Anglicans and the Romans. Hardly a word about the pentys and the car boot churches, both of which grow while the others are withering on the vine.![]()
I think this week is the week of prayer Christian unity but its one of those events I really can't get my head around. It seems to excite the church bureaucrats and all the rest of us have to pay lip service to it. Why not just get on and proclaim the Gospel? I don't want to belong to one massive holy empire - all the evidence is that big churches just become part of the problem, not the answer.
And I notice that when we speak of ecumenicism in our denomination its all about unity with the Anglicans and the Romans. Hardly a word about the pentys and the car boot churches, both of which grow while the others are withering on the vine.
