||Personal Reflection|| One of the earliest ministries I was part of was in the youth unit of a prison. These are some of the memories I have of that time, and some of the lessons I learned.
Church
||Pastoral Passage|| We evangelical Christians are people of the gospel. May we never be unfocussed evangelicals.
||Pastoral Passage|| A major need for commending and defending Christian faith today are ordinary Christians who are willing to talk with their neighbors and colleagues
||Pastoral Passage|| These are challenging changes, so helping inquirers see this and helping each other grow into this is an important part of what we can do as a church community.
||Book Summary|| This book offers a short and sobering analysis of churches that have “died” and offers instructive advice on remedying the decline and realistic hope that a church can flourish again.
||Book Summary|| This book is valuable for the vision of pastoral ministry that it (re)introduces. Given the kind of challenges that Christianity faces today, church leadership needs to have more heft for the sake of the more intellectual elements of discipleship.
||Book Summary|| This book highlights the fundamental features of the nature of the church—a family, on a mission, in a place, together—and challenges all Christians to ensure that these things are clearly built into the way we spend our time together
“Who is church for?” It is a question I have heard discussed and debated numerous times. I have myself. I have noticed that opposing answers are frequently affirmed without clarifying what the other answer is attempting to preserve.
||Pastoral Passage|| I have wondered if the way we practice church gatherings is too attendance-based to prompt much opportunity for meaningful fellowship and mutual love.
||Pastoral Passage|| Community is built into Christianity, much like smartphones are made to be hooked into the internet.
Chris Northcott 