UNFULFILLED PROMISE
the Question Mark title, Empty Churches-Can They Be Filled? was, for me, at least, unfulfilled. A limping session, it never at any stage went below the surface, possibly because of a reluctance by panel members to admit that there was any such problem as the title proposed. Early in the piece, they agreed that churches weren’t empty-at least not too empty-and then went on to discuss the things that kept people away. These were not anything as fundamental as doctrinal or cultural or moral matters, but such considerations as parsonical mannerisms, church heating and lighting, and archaic translations of the Bible. So far as I could make out, three Nonconformists and an Anglican made up the panel; the trouble ° seemed to be the lack of a really "challenging" element. What was needed, surely, was a Catholic or a Freethinker to question some basic assumptions, and make it all just a little less cosy. Still, I shall. remember this session for one remark I can only describe as piquant"The Church has to re-think its theology in terms of the community!" promise of liveliness in
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 782, 16 July 1954, Page 10
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185UNFULFILLED PROMISE New Zealand Listener, Volume 31, Issue 782, 16 July 1954, Page 10
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