Evangelising others is wrong, say 47 percent of Christian millennials. A study conducted by the Barna Group found Christian millennials think it is especially wrong to share their personal beliefs with someone of a different faith “in hopes they will share the same faith.” Read more Related Posts:Nearing 40, millennials, marriage and different familyA Millennial Read more
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Brewery church’ is the latest in craft of luring folks to church 
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Monday, February 18th, 2019
Castle Church Brewing Community describes itself as “Orlando’s newest premier destination brewery” but also makes clear that while beer is its passion, “as a spiritual community, we exist for people first. Read more Related Posts:Black community gets a personal parishOnline Masses and spiritual communion aren’t the ChurchChurch backed programme celebrates new driversWhy gay atheist is raising Read more
New leadership at Bible Society Comments 0
Thursday, February 14th, 2019
Bible Society New Zealand has appointed a new CEO, Neels Janse van Rensburg, who will commence his tenure on 1 April 2019. Neels takes over from Francis Burdett, who is retiring after nine years as Bible Society CEO. The current General Manager of Manna Christian Stores, Neels has more than 18 year’s experience in fostering Read more
Pope emeritus clarifies relationship between Jews and Christians Comments 0
Thursday, November 29th, 2018
The relationship between Jews and Christians is the subject of a correction Pope emeritus Benedict XVI has published in theological magazine “Communio.” He was responding to a newspaper article alleging he favoured missionising the Jews and called Jewish-Christian dialogue into question. Benedict’s correction affirms Christians are called to a “dialogue” with the Jews rather than a Read more
Faith, food and martial arts celebrated Comments 0
Thursday, November 15th, 2018
Close to two hundred people were fed physically and spiritually at the Family Banquet featuring celebrity chef and priest Father Leo Patalinghug. The charity event was hosted by the Centre for Marriage and Family (CMF) on 10 November in Tawa, near Wellington. The American Filipino-born priest who travels the world sharing the importance of family dinners, Read more
36% of Kiwi children don’t know the Christmas story, so… Comments 0
Monday, November 12th, 2018
A Bible Society New Zealand (BSNZ) survey conducted by Nielsen in 2015 revealed that 36% of New Zealand Children have never seen, read or heard the story of Jesus’ birth. BSNZ is hoping to reach these children by giving away 85,000 copies of The Well Good News of Christmas. This book is part of Bible Society’s Pass Read more
Trendy new churches poach worshippers from stuffy ones Comments 0
Monday, October 29th, 2018
The Church of England has launched an evangelism drive. Part of its strategy is to attract young agnostics by “planting” churches, an American model where members of a healthy church set up new churches one elsewhere. According to Ric Thorpe, the Bishop of Islington 2,400 church plants are planned by 2030. Continue reading Related Posts:Church Read more
Finding Jesus: Catholic spin on Pokémon Go game released Comments 0
Thursday, October 25th, 2018
A new spin on the location-based augmented reality mobile game Pokémon Go has been released by a Catholic evangelical group. Its creators say the goal is to teach players of all ages about the Catholic faith. “Follow JC Go” was developed by Florida-based Fundación Ramón Pané for World Youth Day 2019, which will take place Read more
Evangelisation isn’t getting people to fall in line—it’s getting them to fall in love Comments 0
Thursday, October 18th, 2018
Ours is an antinomian age. It is a time when people are “spiritual but not religious.” Young people especially are counted among the “nones” who, while believing in God, eschew the doctrines and communal bonds of traditional religion. It is a time of individualism and a distorted notion of conscience that, in practice, becomes indistinguishable Read more
Waste time to form connections with young people Comments 0
Thursday, October 18th, 2018
Bishops should waste time to connect with young people, 54 year-old Archbishop Anthony Muheria of Kenya says. Speaking to his fellow bishops at the synod on youth, Mulheria noted: “There’s a lot of fury that goes on in discussing what we should do for the young people, what we should propose to them, what do Read more
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