by Keith Judson

I was intrigued and pleasantly surprised to see The Baptist Times’ new strapline – “The paper for Christians in Baptist Churches”. I think it’s spot on!

However, perhaps I should say that the following doesn't necessarily convey the view of `the Management'!

by Keith Judson

It's not unusual to find churches reluctant to embrace change - not least when it comes to new technology!

Preparing a new PowerPoint presentation, complete with video excerpts and music, I was thinking about what I'd do if the computer crashed or the church suffered a power cut!

I also remembered a rather amusing anecdote I heard a couple of years ago ...

Stories wind around each other and create new ways of seeing the world. Stories converge and diverge – at points almost overlapping, at others so far apart that one wonders if they can be understood. And journeys are like that too. Don’t be fooled by the look. At first they seem so linear - going from A to B in the least possible time and covering the least possible distance. But nothing could be further from the truth. Journeys, like stories, often prove tortuous. Often they cross over paths others have trod. Sometimes they tread uncharted territory. And some times, if we are lucky, others are travelling the same road as you, and even the same direction, providing companionship and support. But just when we think we have reached the end, we realise we have only just begun.

Be Thou my vision!

I imagine we all have particular themes which recur in our preaching. At the HEBA AGM last year I looked at the oft-quoted Proverbs 29.18: “Without a vision the people perish ...” (KJV) which reads very differently in every other translation!