Posts Tagged ‘growth’

I have a home full of books. There are bookshelves in every room. I suppose there must be around four thousand books in the house altogether. Some of them are general books – books of poetry, novels, history books. But most of them are, in some sense, “Christian”. They are books about the Bible (lots of commentaries), books about Christian doctrine, books about how to live as a Christian, books about church history – and lots more.

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It seems that we’re constantly having to make changes these days. Most obviously there are changes in the people who attend the church. Long-established members move on and new faces appear.  Even the arrival of lots of new babies brings change to the congregation – new challenges, new strains, new opportunities.  Do we need an organised crèche?  Should we start a mother and toddler group?

There have been changes in leadership over the last couple of years and there are more on the way.  …