You Can’t Reform the Church Without Reforming Christians

We talk a lot about reforming the church.

We talk about bishops, synods, structures, money, appointments, theological colleges and national strategy. Some of that matters enormously. Bad structures can frustrate good ministry. Bad appointments can do immense damage. Institutions can either serve the gospel or obstruct it.

But even if we fixed all of that tomorrow, we could still have a spiritually weak church. Because you cannot reform the church without reforming Christians.

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Can the Church be Renewed?

Can the Church of England still be reformed and renewed? Amid doctrinal confusion, institutional failures, and widespread discouragement, is there reason for hope? In this

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How Did the Early Church Flourish in a Hostile World?

Christians sometimes talk as though cultural marginalisation makes gospel growth almost impossible. The first Christians might have found that an odd idea. They had no established church, no Christian schools, no historic buildings, no representation in the corridors of power, and certainly no sympathetic media. At various points they faced ridicule, official suspicion and persecution. Yet Christianity grew.

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