Alternative

Another area in which we need to discover what allegiance to Jesus means is in the thing we’ve called the church, especially if we’ve named it as a particular brand of church.  Now, I don’t think there is anything particularly wrong about a people having a particular charism that lights them up, an aspect of … More Alternative

17th October

The Mercy Seat The 17th October has been a special day for the last 17 years.  At 6.50pm on a Sunday evening in 1995 in The Salvation Army hall in Irvine, my home town, I knelt at the ‘mercy seat.’ I had been moving towards this point for around 8 or so months, having been … More 17th October

Organically Simple

Once you’ve experienced it, you’re ruined for life.  Nothing else will do, nothing else will match it and everything else seems a  shadow in comparison.  Sometimes we’ve found it by accident, sometimes we’ve planted it and sometimes it has developed as the only appropriate response to a mission setting. I’m talking about ‘simple church’ by … More Organically Simple