Do you recognise any of the following perspectives? Have you heard them expressed before?
-
“We are just a faith community, we don’t really have a voice in the big Church structures.”
-
“We are doing things so differently, people outside this congregation just don’t get it.”
-
“That group isn’t doing faith formation or worship. They aren’t really a church.”
-
“My sense of call in ministry doesn’t really fit the formal church structures. I’ve got to keep my distance.”
-
“The Synod is just always asking us to report what we are doing, check their boxes and meet their requirements. It feels like there’s no valuing of what is actually happening in peoples lives in this project.”
-
“We are trying to connect with people who are post-church so we don’t advertise with the Uniting Church Logo, or anything overtly Christian.”
-
“We’ve had lots of challenges, and we have tried to ask for help, but most of the time we just have to figure it out on our own. We find that much of what we are doing is for the first time. Other churches don’t know how to help.”