Bishop Graham Cray

I found the lecture by Bishop Graham Cray to be really interesting. He touched on various different ways the church can be reshaped in order to be culturally relevant to the society it is in. He emphatically argued that the old way of doing church will no longer work as 97% of the population (in the UK) are not attending or having anything to do with church! In response, he suggests that the church take on new forms, creative - fresh expressions - that will reach people where they are since calling people to "come back to church" is no longer doable as the current generations don't even have a grid or any knowledge for what "church" even is. It is like the body of Christ is going to a people group in some far away jungle who have never  heard the name of Jesus or anything to do with Christianity and will have to hear everything about the Gospel in a new and unique way - starting from the very beginning. In some ways I think this is a really cool and unique opportunity that the church faces!