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I’m a great fan of just dropping Godstuff into the conversation.  If God is part of your mental wallpaper, and you’re the sort of person who allows a stream of consciousness out of your mouth, then God will occasionally appear in the script as a matter of course.  ‘I wonder…

I was at an event today, a conversation about ‘Living the story.  Telling the story.’  One of the people in the conversation asked, ‘Do people out there really want to hear the story of Jesus?  Do they want the message we have to give?’ Obviously that raises the question of…

Just a brief post today:  how do you discern what the Holy Spirit is doing so you can join in? Here are three possible signs (not the only ones – you’ll have your own): Where have a number of different people had the same sort of idea about something?  This…

The concept of evangelism seems to flow from the anxiety of the institutional church to increase its numbers by infecting more people with faith.  I don’t mean to suggest that people who love and serve God through a recognised role in the institutional church don’t have a natural instinct to…

If ‘isms’ are dangerous, verbs ending in ‘ise’ or ‘ize’ are ominous.  Where did all the ‘ise’ words come from?  There are hundreds of them:  patronise, cauterize, immunise, terrorise, categorise, idolise, immobilise, infantilise, evangelise…. Where the verb has a human subject and a human object, the verb nearly always conveys…