To be honest, I’m too busy enjoying myself to blog! But seriously, things have changed a bit over the last few months, particularly my role at work. With my colleague moving on in January to a new pastorate, I’m fulfilling the role of ‘minister’ to Trinity under the title of ‘Ministry Team Leader’ for the … More Changed days
I just received news from Stuart Murray Williams about his new book. Its bound to be a ‘must read’ in my opinion. His writing of late has been profoundly helpful in trying to understand where the church is in the UK in these days. Here is what he says about the book: “We’re writing to … More New Book: Multi-Voiced Church
A couple of months ago I finished reading Brian McLaren’s book ‘Naked Spirituality.’ He strips away ‘religion’ from our interaction with God and sets out how he sees the process we travel through in our spiritual life. Stage one, which he calls “Simplicity” is the stage where everything is black and white, right and wrong, … More Seasons
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
Tomorrow is another day. Not that today was in any way disasterous. It was quite a good one. But I’m one of those weird reflective types who finds it necessary to silence all the remaining little nuances that remain unsettled before I can finally rest. I don’t find being ‘up the front’ very easy…but its … More Thorn in the flesh
I find myself in the rather obscure enigmatic world of ecclesiastical title searching in lots of ways these days. Hang ups about pinning down whether I’m ordained or not, qualified to ‘lead communion’ or not, and various other discussions which make me smile. ‘In house’, of course, this stuff matters to some people in order … More Who am I?
Over these last few years, around 3 years in fact, I’ve been increasingly building relationship with an emerging church planting movement (emerging in the developing sense, as opposed to the theological sense) led by a guy with a clear apostolic ministry called Peter Farmer. Mission Britain promotes simple church, organic church planting, pioneer evangelism and … More Army
So I’ve decided to round thing off over at my other blog, which is really a Salvation Army focussed blog, for the time being. I’ll be blogging more regularly here. This blog has been host to my ‘non-Sally-Army-specific’ stuff for the last couple of years and charts the bumpy road of recovery since leaving the … More Re-Shuffle
This is a wordle produce from the content of Army Renewal blog over these last 7 years (Click on it for a larger view) Given recent developments and closed doors, I think the time really has come now to round off things here at Army Renewal. Thank you to those of you who have tuned … More Wrapping up…
Andrew S M Clark 