How many light bulbs does it take to change the Church?

You’ll have heard the one that asks, “How many Presbyterians does it take to change a light bulb?” “Change! Change! Really, is there something wrong with the old one!” What if we flip it and ask, “How many light bulbs does it take to change the church?” Light bulbs are a metaphor for ideas… and I’ve heard countless ideas over the years, I’ve had countless ideas, and shared them… only…

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Change 4,5,6

time for change sign with led light

You can only change 3 things: structures, policies and mindsets… but you have to change them all… and mindset will always be the hardest! To effect those changes, you need to do three things… I call them steps 4, 5, 6 in honour and recognition of the change that has already happened! Change is all around and change is hard… particularly within the Church context, where despite a core belief…

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Online Donations

Church of Scotland DONATE button The Church of Scotland Introduced a DONATE BUTTON in June 2020. You can create a link directly to your congregation’s donate page by adding the congregation number as a parameter. Eg: https://cos.churchofscotland.org.uk/donate/?cong=382184 (with /?cong=382184 after donate – with your number – unless you want to support Strontian Church!) Payments are processed via PayPal – who will take a small fee. Contributors don’t need a PayPal…

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Greek & Hebrew Study Bible

Have had this iOS app for years – really useful. I have only a very little Hebrew and absolutely no Greek – but good to be able to see the interlinear text. Fascinating to see for example that in Mark 1 in the healing of Peter’s mother-in-law the ‘helped her up’ is literally ‘raised up’ – same word as used of Jesus’ resurrection – and when she ‘waited on them’…

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