The church becomes ugly when it is led as Church Ltd with a CEO leader and executive board.  Its worse when that ‘CEO’ has autocratic authority (assumed or organisationally given) and when s/he leads from that place.  It is mechanical, worldly, institutional, legalistic and open to a million abuses.  More than that, the whole concept … More Church Ltd

Week by week, on a Sunday morning, I’m ususally on my chair in our worship area around 10 minutes or so before we kick off.  From my vantage point, I look out on a couple of hundred people each week.  I watch the chatter, the children playing, the last-minute arrivals settling in, musicians preparing.  I … More Arisen