1. The church today: seems to have lost its focus on ‘Love God with all your heart, soul, mind, and strength, and Love your neighbour as yourself’. It is fractured, focused on issues such as same-sex blessings, still divided over BCP or BAS, so many more things divide rather than unite. The average age is 70 and rising, the young people few and far between. The BAS which, 20 years ago, was considered a contemporary service is now out-dated, and too rigid a liturgy for today’s youth.
2. The Anglican church in 2019: I would like to see it out of the big buildings and completely in home churches, small groups gathering regularly for prayer, worship, and discussion. The big buildings would be sold off or used for concerts, large group meetings, conferences etc.. Those buildings take a huge percentage of our income to maintain, money which should go into Outreach, to nurture and assist the marginalized, i.e. to truly act the gospel.
Blessings,
Joanna W.
