
Enabling mission and Christian living
If church as we’ve known it has failed to connect with 90% of the population, then it’s time we were prepared to look at things differently. The Mission Shaped Ministry course offers the opportunity to engage in new concepts, or fresh expressions of church which will connect with some of those people we are missing. We need to think ‘outside the box’ – the box of our buildings and/or the box of our ways of doing things. The Gospel doesn’t change, but our delivery of it must.
We have run the MSM course twice now in Kent, although the uptake amongst Baptist has been minimal - despite one of the tutors being our own Penny Marsh. Now comes the opportunity for Sussex and Surrey churches, again with Penny and myself among the tutors.
- Revd Stuart Davison (SEBA Team Leader)