Back to Church Sunday - essential?
So today the C of E launches the sign-up for this year's Back to Church Sunday . I wonder if any readers are among the three million who are "waiting for a friend to invite them"? (For the record, I believe this refers to a survey carried out a couple of years ago when people were asked if they would consider going to church if someone asked them to). Or perhaps more likely, you are among those considering doing the asking. Back to Church Sunday is a neat idea. There really are people out there who would consider coming to church if asked. Churchgoers get to interact with their unchurched or de-churched friends without having to talk about anything difficult like God, or their own personal faith - it's just a question of making the invitation. But there are one or two cautions to considered before investing Back to Church with the "essential" label, and seeing it as the panacea for all the church's ills. The most obvious one is the question of ...