GOD SAVE US FROM 'BACK TO CHURCH SUNDAY'
An advertising campaign for 'Back to Church Sunday' has begun.
But people have no interest in church attendance anymore. It is part of yesterday's world, a bygone culture, a redundant resource.
The church comunities which still thrive represent rarified practices or origins, but by and large, churches are empty and their clerics in crisis.
The Open Episcopal Church has pioneered a radical response to this taking worship, the sacraments and the Gospel out in to the community and our ministry is sought after and appreciated. Unless the main denominations are willing to learn from our experiences, their future is bleak.
But people have no interest in church attendance anymore. It is part of yesterday's world, a bygone culture, a redundant resource.
The church comunities which still thrive represent rarified practices or origins, but by and large, churches are empty and their clerics in crisis.
The Open Episcopal Church has pioneered a radical response to this taking worship, the sacraments and the Gospel out in to the community and our ministry is sought after and appreciated. Unless the main denominations are willing to learn from our experiences, their future is bleak.
posted by Bishop Jonathan Blake | 1:30 PM
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