Pressing On

Why must I choose? Polarising can be a useful technique when writing articles, including blogs. Writing strongly from one perspective enables a pithier piece of writing which then provokes more response. However, it can also create tribes,  people who share a particular opinion, gather around them likeminded people and then draw together evidence from said people in order to strengthen their own position. Unfortunately, when things are presented in such a way they create false choices - in other words, if we reflect a little more deeply we realise that there is in reality, no choice that has to be made. It is not an either/or situation and it would be more accurately presented as both/and. An example... Qu: Is there still a need to send missionaries from the UK, supported by the UK Church, to other countries around the world? Many argue that there is, and continue to follow a traditional model of sending, others say that there is not and would argue that our resources

This year I am celebrating my silver wedding anniversary ... Just for something to do I have begun to sketch all the houses we have lived in during that time. So here is house number #5 A rather quaint fisherman's cottage, tucked back off the main road coming out of Paignton towards Totnes/Brixham.  This was our first family home, a small two-bedroomed cottage in easy reach of the town centre, which we rented for about eighteen months. Things of significance that happened here: There was no parking, so I arranged to park my car in the car park of a nearby office. Unfortunately this meant that the car had to be removed from said car park by 7:30am every morning except Sunday. No lie-ins, however as we had two children under 2 years these were a long distant memory anyway. For the first time, we became settled in a local Church community, Living Waters AoG Church in Preston, Paignton. This fellowship has seen a lot of changes over the years, but continues to