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When Gospel Growth Makes a Mess

24 December 2020 By David Trounce Leave a Comment

When Gospel Growth Makes a Mess - Sermo Humilis

Dying churches are often clean and tidy. Growing churches, flourishing churches, are often characterised by “situations” and “issues” that require attention. Rosters need to be filled, visitations need to occur, kids are everywhere, there's a spill on the kitchen floor, someone … [Read more...] about When Gospel Growth Makes a Mess

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Thor's Oak

Around 723 AD, a missionary named Boniface entered Hesse in Germany. Upon finding a sacred tree named Thor’s Oak, he took an axe to it, cut it down and built a church. Many in the town, believing that the God of Boniface must be greater than Thor, left their paganism behind converted to Christianity.