Cartoon: Bill McArthur
Church and the community
At a recent conference held by the three Church of Scotland churches in Bishopbriggs, concern was expressed at our failure to attract new members into the church. It suddenly occurred to me that this is not what the church is all about. Did Jesus erect a building and expect people to come into it? No! He and his followers went out into the community to where the people were. Likewise after Christ died his followers, such as Paul, determined to take the Gospel to the ‘ends of the earth’.