At the Methodist Conference in Southport today, the General Secretary’s report included this paragraph.
“We unquestionably have too many church buildings: too many in the wrong places, too many unfit to sustain our life as a discipleship movement shaped for mission today. We too readily associate the sustaining of the life of our chapels with the work of God’s kingdom – these often overlap but they’re not the same thing. A more sacrificial, strategic approach is needed. Our churches must not exist simply to perpetuate the status quo, but to provide a place where people can come to faith and be nurtured in their journey with Christ.”
We have begun to address this issue in Beeston (and Chilwell) but not all of us agree that our own church should be the one to go!
