tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1243632722786443561.post6460340291497241013..comments2023-11-17T22:28:07.442-06:00Comments on Deus Misereatur: Considerations on Church-Renewing Movements 5mphilliberhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05199089265196120556noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1243632722786443561.post-74752382161963155122012-09-21T22:27:13.670-05:002012-09-21T22:27:13.670-05:00Mike,
When I first came to our church, I explaine...Mike, <br />When I first came to our church, I explained that I intended to pastor a reformed church. I had a sample of the liturgy that expressed my sense of what this meant in terms of worship. Nobody flinched. A year to the day after putting those changes in place, 8 folks left. That was a third of the congregation. There were various reasons not connected to the changes, but I do believe that one issue was significant. It was not the same church anymore. One reason I tried to be up front about my intentions was that this church, though Presbyterian, had functioned in a broadly evangelical way. The changes I introduced, though bringing it closer to many churches and church plants, altered the habits of worship and an entirely new character developed. This created a dissonance that some could not overcome.Greg Fieldshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09238406011882776341noreply@blogger.com