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“Why don’t people join tramping clubs?”

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||Pastoral Passage|| The answers to this question find many parallels when it is asked regarding church gatherings

Chris Northcott June 5, 2022 Communal Christianity, Pastoral Passages

The Needle Dividing the Body of Christ

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||Article|| Christians (and others) who ultimately refuse to get vaccinated and acquire a vaccine-passport face being made maligned and marginalised members of New Zealand for the foreseeable future. Whatever their rationale, they will not be doing it lightly, and it is not the role of vaccinated Christians to make life harder for them.

Chris Northcott October 27, 2021 Short Articles

The Price of Protesting the Gathering Restrictions

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New Zealand appears to have dodged a bullet and gotten off lightly in this pandemic, yet many Christians are berating the government because we cannot gather as churches under Lockdown Level 2. But there is a high cost which I doubt we are counting.

Chris Northcott May 19, 2020 Communal Christianity, Current Events, Public Christian Faith

Disconnected Fellowship in the Time of the Lockdown

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||Short Article|| Live-streamed video conferencing is not too far from the ‘face to face’ of 2 John 12, but it cannot make up the full experience of gathered fellowship. The time will come when we may reopen the doors of our churches and sit again on each other’s couches.

Chris Northcott April 19, 2020 Communal Christianity, Current Events, Short Articles

The Commitments of Baptism

Last weekend four of our young men were baptised at our church camp. What follows are the questions that were asked, with some comments the significance they carry.

Chris Northcott March 21, 2020 Communal Christianity, Pastoral Passages, Personal Spirituality

How Strugglers Go the Long Haul

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It can be hard to really appreciate how challenging it is for some people to continue as Christians, and just how easy and attractive it is to simply tap out. Are we equipping people to process and understand these struggles well? Are we providing the support for them to hang in there while they do?

Chris Northcott March 16, 2020 Communal Christianity, Pastoral Passages

The Declining Relevance of Pubs and Clubs

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Truth isn’t affected by popularity, or a lack of it.

Chris Northcott March 13, 2020 Christianity and Culture, Communal Christianity, Pastoral Passages

Weep with those who Weep

Experience will teach us that although Christian hope should give us gladness, it does not remove but only blunts the varied griefs we suffer and does not fill the hole left in the lives of those left behind.

Chris Northcott March 13, 2020 Communal Christianity, Marriage and Family, Pastoral Passages

Fellowship and Encouragement.

Community is built into Christianity, much like smartphones are made to be hooked into the internet.

Chris Northcott March 9, 2020 Communal Christianity, Lessons from Historic Christians, Pastoral Passages, The Pilgrims Progress

Christian Community

Perhaps our experience of church has not been as rich as we would hope, or maybe we just don’t even know what Christian community could be.

Chris Northcott March 2, 2020 Communal Christianity, Pastoral Passages
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