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?
church community
Truth isn’t affected by popularity, or a lack of it.
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.
||Pastoral Passage|| Community is built into Christianity, much like smartphones are made to be hooked into the internet.
||Pastoral Passage|| 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 