By: Peter Reynolds

Peter Reynolds — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 20:36:05 +0000

Our pastor jokes that he is (to quote his wife’s blog) “senior pastor of a multicampus church here in Scotland (-: and preaches three times on a Sunday”. This situation of multiple locations, sometimes meeting separately, sometimes together, was the same at the last church we were at, and, to an extent, in Lochcarron too, and is, as you know, very frequent in the Highlands (not to mention the many places where there is no pastor and often multiple somewhat similar denominations). So one kind of wonders whether one “belongs” to the church in place X or in places X + Y – and one can imagine the pastor may feel a bit the same. In some ways it’s good, because one gets to meet with a wider variety of people, but I think there are probably downsides too. Of course in some denominations (especially FP and, with a slightly different emphasis, FC) there is a strong sense of “belonging” to their national “church”, and one feels, rightly or wrongly, that, in the case of the FPs, the local “congregation” is relatively unimportant.Best wishesPeter http://www.peterreynoldsbooks.com/

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 20:19:44 +0000

Thanks for this focused discussion. I say Amen!

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