Issue 02 Preaching for the planetBlog | Name that tune
Name that tune
Author: Andy PeckPost Date: 09.03.15
If I say this, take it as it is meant, but I love a funeral. I also love christenings and weddings. The ‘occasional offices’ as they are known in the good old C of E are anything but occasional in my context.
I look after three rural churches which, despite what some reports and papers would suggest about the rest of the nation, are still very much in the heart of Christendom. Most of the funerals from the village come into the church (even if, as their nearest and dearest put it ‘’e weren’t right religious’). Most people have their children christened and most people want to get married in church. I also have every now and again someone who has just given birth asking to be ‘churched’ and so I do a service of thanksgiving for them.
Ministering and preaching in a small enclave of Christendom is a gift. One I am very thankful for. It is a gift because I have a captive audience, with a shared purpose, asking me to tell them about Jesus; what more could
