I Like Jesus “I like Jesus – but I don’t go to church.”

Bosco Peters has a very good piece on why people stop going to church, but still call themselves Christians, over on his Liturgy blog.  He relates it to the recent Census figures on church attendance, but gives much more (including at least four Post Scripts to his original post).

Here's the opening paragraph....

OK. Anyone who has been paying attention would be concerned. I’ve seen Christian communities I care about, approximately halve in numbers of people participating in the last fifteen years or so (a period in which the country’s population grew by 20%). The NZ Census figures on religious affiliation, released this week, present a similarly sobering reflection.

Read the rest here. 

Liturgy back online

One of the websites that's been missing as a result of the Christchurch earthquake has been the internationally popular Liturgy site, run by Anglican Bosco Peters. As a result of being offline, a lot of his fans have assumed he'd gone for good and have departed themselves.

After a few spasmodic tweets, sent from an internet cafe, or the like, Bosco and Liturgy are now back online again.



And as perky, informative and occasionally hilarious as ever...

Fresh take on the Christmas story

Just before Christmas arrives, check out this great little video of the Christmas story from St Paul’s Anglican Church, in Auckland, New Zealand.



Thanks to Bosco Peter's Liturgy site for making us aware of this.

Lent

Lent starts on Wednesday - nice and early this year. Bosco Peters, over at the Liturgy site, has provided a box announcing Lent (in purple, of course) which you can see over to the right. (The Liturgy site, by the way, has a huge following amongst people around the world with a liturgical bent. I can't remember what milestone Bosco hit just the other day, but it was substantial.

You can find the code for it on his main page, plus heaps of resources (not necessarily Anglican) for the coming season, including information on what Lent is (for all those Protestants who've forgotten or never knew), and a heap of other material for using in the area of Christian Discipline....