What’s a bishop for?
Jan 20th, 2012 | By Ian Poulton | Category: MinistryA colleague in the North had a plaque on the wall of the vestry of his church, ‘For God so loved the world, he didn’t send a committee’. To a young, inexperienced curate, it seemed an excessively cynical and jaundiced view, although his suggestion that a camel was a horse built by a committee did have a ring of truth about it.
Spending a Friday meeting at a diocesan meeting, where it would not have been possible to resolve the issues discussed, camels wandered through the mind. If the Kingdom …