Need or want?

Stephen Kneale  |  Comment
Date posted:  1 Apr 2020
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Need or want?

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Evangelical churches are busy places, aren’t they? There is so much to do.

There are, of course, all the usual rotas that one might be on: music, Sunday School, tea and coffee, welcome, etc. Then there are all the opportunities for mission and discipleship. Add to that the endless calls for training on every point of minutiae that ever takes place and, before long, you can find yourself swamped with stuff to do.

There are two typical schools of thought on these things. On the one hand, you have the ‘everyone at all’ school. These are the guys who insist that everyone ought to be at everything. If there are things to do, you should be doing them. If the church is doing anything, you must be there. No ifs, no buts. If there is some serving to be done and you aren’t tied up with several other things, you are going to serve.

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