Spectacular Interventions
Andre Henry at All Saints, Pasadena, 19 Jan 2020, 11:15 am worship We need a spectacular intervention. We need to do it!
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Reading ...
I take this journey in thinking of discipleship in the modern era and its impact of the next form of the Church in congregational life. Today I am reading ... Reading ... Weird Church by Estock & Nixon ISBN 978-0-8298-2034-8 and pondering. Please send other suggestions about the future of the church, shape of ministry in 21st Century, the fall of the Christian nation, the decline of the Church in American morality, the New Great Awakening to deitland@gmail.com . Pray with me. Betende Hände. Bleistift und Kohle auf Velin. 30 x 22,8 cm Wiki Commons Images
Breathe, Trust, and Heal
As I reflect on discipleship, I listen and read some of the voices of the Church - We are wounders and healers. ( All Saints, Pasadena ) And from John Pavlovitz https://johnpavlovitz.com/2020/01/06/christians-are-supposed-to-care-about-people/ Think and pray how you can think, pray, and act out the love of God to all we encounter. We are all healers. We can be healed.
Church of Canada may disappear by 2040
https://www.anglican.ca/ Church of Canada may disappear by 2040, says new report. November 18, 2019 (RNS) — A “wake-up call.” That’s what Archbishop Linda Nicholls, primate of the Anglican Church of Canada, called a new report showing there may be no members left in the mainline Canadian denomination in 20 years. The report, which was commissioned by the church, was delivered to the Council of General Synod meeting November 7-9 in Mississauga, Ontario. “Projections from our data indicate that there will be no members, attenders or givers in the Anglican Church of Canada by approximately 2040," said the Rev. Neil Elliot, an Anglican priest in Trail, British Columbia, who authored the report. Elliot based his prediction on church statistics from 1961 to 2001, subscriber data to the "Anglican Journal," the church’s official publication, and data from his own survey of the number of people on parish rolls, average Sunday attendance and regular identifiable g...