All through the gospels Jesus declares the good news as ‘the kingdom of God is at hand’. He didn’t say that he was the good news, nor did he say that church was the good news - in fact, he talks about church only once. Yet down the years, it seems Christians put most of their time, energy & resources into this thing called church. Getting the structure ‘right’, servicing the organisation with roles, running a thousand and one ‘ministries’ inside it. Evangelism – telling & being the good news has degenerated into persuading people to come to church, to join the Christian rat-race.
What is the role of church? Is it the means by which the kingdom is established or the means by which it is made visible? What should it be really like? Where should it be? How should we live?
Thinking Allowed Live Event - tonight
Oh dear! This will be one where one can guess the way the debate should go but does one necessarily agree?
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