My unpopular view of the day: people are welcome in the Church, to love their church, to yearn for prayer and worship to take place in their church, to seek sanctuary in their church during a pandemic... *even* if they haven’t come to the Annual Parochial Church Meeting.
https://twitter.com/MirandaTHolmes/status/1308358851255730178
I know how we all want people to be more engaged in their local churches, and @MirandaTHolmes is so often wonderful on this & on our concern for those marginalised from the church, but making the church into a private members club is the way to crash this.
When people who are not so involved with the church that they come to the Annual Parochial Church Meeting tell us their concerns, their hurt, their outrage, surely we should hear them not dismiss them for not being involved enough?
That people still care enough about the church to be saddened - outraged even - at their churches being closed is a *good* thing! It means God has touched their hearts in particular ways in particular places and we should rejoice that they still care!
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