What’s your church like? I mean, really like?

I don’t mean, where it is or what kind of building and programmes you have. Or even why you exist (something perhaps you capture in a mission statement). All these reflect the individual context of each gathered congregation.

What’s your church like? I mean who makes up the congregation. Each of us might answer that question differently, and there will be large variations, but for the most part our churches are – to a greater or lesser extent – intergenerational.

Every person who joins a Sunday service has their own story, of course. Some might have grown up in a Christian home; others might have been recently converted. Some may have a spectacular story; others will have hardly known a day when they didn’t know, love and follow Christ Jesus.