The Church in the Furnace

Posted on May 26, 2016 
Filed under Opinion, Resources

David MansfieldDavid Mansfield follows up on his earlier article, ‘The Church in the Fridge’.

“Sometimes our thoughtlessness and insensitivity can seem cool and indifferent. At other time, as I mentioned in the last blog, in the story of the inveterate hugger of every newcomer and regular that he could get his arms around, our behaviour can be too intense. Rather than a church in the fridge, we may come across as a church in the furnace.

While extreme examples don’t apply to most of us, there may be more subtle ways that we do things that can also come across as a bit intense to the newcomer…”

– As someone who visits many churches, David spots sub-cultural quirks you might not notice. At SydneyAnglicans.net