I spotted this over on Dylan’s blog, go check it out: As with many infographics this data is based from America, but it has much to apply to the UK situation. Some key points 1. Use of technology - 75% on a social networking site and 20% having posted a video. This is a generation [...]
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The Millennials
Posted by Chris on January 9, 2012
http://chriskidd.co.uk/2012/01/09/the-millennials/
Books I have read: The Search to Belong
I’ve been to countless seminars and read probably dozens of books on small group ministry. For the past couple of decades, we have consistently heard that the right small group programs will grow our church, create fully-devoted Christ-followers, ease the burden on pastors, return us to New Testament Christianity, etc., and I’ve said those things [...]
Posted by Chris on December 10, 2011
http://chriskidd.co.uk/2011/12/10/books-i-have-read-the-search-to-belong/
Books I have read: Reimagining Spiritual Formation: A Week in the Life of an Experimental Church
Doug Pagitt is a lead pastor at a church in Minnesota called Solomon’s porch. Reimagining Spiritual Formation: A Week in the Life of an Experimental Church is about his journey away from the program centred mega-church into a more organic, decentralized community. He talks about some new ways of viewing spiritual formation that are quite different [...]
Posted by Chris on December 5, 2011
http://chriskidd.co.uk/2011/12/05/books-i-have-read-reimagining-spiritual-formation-a-week-in-the-life-of-an-experimental-church/
Monitoring poverty and social exclusion
The annual report on the state of poverty and social exclusion in the UK, from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and the New Policy Institute has recently been published: Key points In the year to 2009/10, the child poverty rate fell to 29%, the second fall in two years. Child poverty fell by around one-seventh under [...]
Posted by Chris on December 5, 2011
http://chriskidd.co.uk/2011/12/05/monitoring-poverty-and-social-exclusion/
Books I have read: Beginning Well: Christian Conversion and Authentic Transformation
Beginning Well: Christian Conversion and Authentic Transformation by Gordon Smith is one of those books that has slipped under the radar (I had never heard about it until a few months ago), but it really should be widely read. We would do well to think about conversion and the impact the type of conversion can have on [...]
Posted by Chris on December 4, 2011
http://chriskidd.co.uk/2011/12/04/books-i-have-read-beginning-well-christian-conversion-and-authentic-transformation/
Youth Justice Board saved from quango cull
The BBC has reported how the Youth Justice Board has been saved from quango cull: The government has abandoned plans to scrap the Youth Justice Board, minister Lord McNally has announced. The Ministry of Justice said the youth justice system still needed reform but, “following careful consideration”, the board would be saved. The board was set up [...]
Posted by Chris on November 24, 2011
http://chriskidd.co.uk/2011/11/24/youth-justice-board-saved-from-quango-cull/
Books I have read: The Integrity of Pastoral Care
What is distinctively Christian about the pastoral care the Churches offer, and what is the place of care and counselling within the broader context of the work of the Church? Integrity of Pastoral Care (New Library of Pastoral Care) by David Lyall presents a study of pastoral care as the central pastoral ministry of the church, relating [...]
Posted by Chris on November 23, 2011
http://chriskidd.co.uk/2011/11/23/books-i-have-read-the-integrity-of-pastoral-care/
Parenting and the Image of God
Mark Lauterbach with a great post for how the image of God should influence our parenting. He writes: First, we see them as utter equals in creation and redemption. I may be Dad and a parent and have a responsibility to raise them in the nurture of the Lord, but that child is my equal in dignity. [...]
Posted by Chris on November 22, 2011
http://chriskidd.co.uk/2011/11/22/parenting-and-the-image-of-god/
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