Compline The only spiritual weapon i have in my armoury for a 14 year old is Compline. I told my companion we would do it each evening as a way of putting the day to bed and moving on with the night. I don’t really have any trendy Christianity. Compline is just the stuff that the church and its monastic orders have been doing for centuries. On the first night he was borderline surprised shocked that i was to carry through my promise. Each evening i say these words of hope, promise and life, and he, well you will have to ask him
A while back Bishop Phillip North spoke to New Wine and caused a bit of a reaction one of it was a Tweet to my millions of followers. In response I had a phone call from The Church Times asking for a quote because I serve in a poor parish, I declined and said I would put a more considered response on my blog, so here it is with a link to The Bishops full talk. https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2017/4-august/news/uk/there-s-a-future-for-the-church-if-evangelicals-put-the-poor-first-bishop-north-tells-new-wine 1. One of the issues the church does not recognise is the exportation of people , talents and money from parishes like mine to middle class parishes which is draining and demanding on leadership. For 10 years I thought I was building a community, then it dawned on me I was building people up to go to other places. 2. Bishop Phillip talks of abandonment of the poor: I think it’s more complicated than that. When ...
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