I’ve invested time today reading theologians writings about the church.

Why?

I read a lot of practitioners (i.e. those doing the work), but occasionally it’s good to go back to the philosophical side of what we’re doing.

It’s always good to remember the “Why behind the what.”

Reading from John Stott, among others, I found a “quotable”…

“Unless we listen attentively to the voices of secular society, struggle to understand them, and feel with people in their frustration, anger, bewilderment and despair, weeping with those who weep, we will lack authenticity as the disciples of Jesus of Nazareth. Instead we will run the risk of answering questions nobody is asking, scratching where nobody is itching, supplying goods for which there is no demand – in other words, of being totally irrelevant, which in its long history the church has often been.”