Category: congregation

I got interrupted in a conversation today just as I heard someone say ‘but all my friends are Christian’.

Clearly I have been getting this business of outreach all wrong. We need to go right back to basics. If all your friends are Christians, it’s time to find new friends. Adopt a pagan. Befriend an atheist. Spend time with someone who radically disagrees with you.

You have about 92% of the population to choose from, after all.  (OK– that’s based on actual church attendance, but even the most generous estimates of Christian allegiance in Britain leave you will a full 24% of the population from which to find new friends.)

Following up on another request —

I have added a page of church notices. You can find it in the title bar above, or in the scroll bar to the right under Pages.

Hopefully this will help those of you who miss the announcements on Sunday.

Addendum:  now that the format has changed, none of this is quite true.  But the page links are all the more obvious now, at the top.

A member of the congregation has asked if there could be a private place for conversation on this blog. So I’m going to run an experiment. The blog below (titled ‘in house’) is password protected. It is a place of conversation for congregation only. If there is a perceived need for this, then we can explore setting up a ‘members-only’ group separate to this blog. It is not my intent to have lots of closed posts here, but this is a way to test the waters.

So — members of the congregation: if you would feel happier participating in a closed conversation please let me know by logging in to ‘in house’ and leaving a comment. You can get the password by emailing me, or by filling in the name in the following sentences.

Rothesay: _______ , our top soprano, is married to a lovely tenor. Aren’t we lucky they live in Kilchatten Bay?

Dunoon: _______ is the person who (among other things) rings the bells, washes the linen, administers the chalice, and loves Tai Chi.

(name sounds the same for both — any doubt about spelling, go for the shortest option).

Tighnabruaich: I suspect you can answer the Dunoon question — it is the same person who often travels with Rosemary to Oban for Synod.