Comments on: Is the local church disappearing?

By: Sandra

Sandra — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 19:19:02 +0000

The Very Reverend Peter Elliot is “married” to his partner Thomas , he has already “discerned, dreamed and decided where the church should be in 2019. Sandra, I deleted a duplicate comment – admin

By: stuck in Toronto

stuck in Toronto — Fri, 15 Jan 2010 17:02:20 +0000

It’s not about stats or money, it’s about obedience.

By: Mike

Mike — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 17:48:12 +0000

The church must stop its emphasis on all of the social and controversial issues such as same-sex weddings and global warming and all of the other nonsense that the Anglican Church of Canada has embraced.
The ACOC must return to Holy Tradition, the Holy Scriptures, and orthodoxy and get the parishioners saved and then the pews will fill up as most people want the old time religion.
Years ago the minister had to submit a monthly report as to what was going on in his parish, how many he had visited, how many were in church, how many souls had been saved and led to the Lord, how many youngsters were in Sunday School, and other statistics to show the Diocese what progress was being made in the parish. Now it seems that the priest does not report to anyone, but simply does his own thing.

By: Frank Wirrell

Frank Wirrell — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:12:46 +0000

With Peter Elliot as chair this exercise is doomed to failure. He is a strong supporter of Michael Ingham.

By: Margo

Margo — Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:00:40 +0000

Without doing any further reading than this little snippet (in other words, off the top of my head!), I would say 2 things:
1. This seems to be a ‘business’ model, and I’m not saying the church should not look at these kinds of things as ‘helps’, and
2. I don’t think the work of the Holy Spirit takes any notice of, or is confined to, what we as humans ‘rationally’ think. In fact, in my experience, I know so!