A Historical and Theogical Reflection...ON CHAIRS!

Over the last three weeks we've had the chairs in three different arrangements at church. It made me thankful that the people at Milnsbridge are open enough to let me 'mess around inside church' without telling me off. At Tamworth where i was the arrangement of the chairs used to be the focus of heated arguments at church meetings (rather pointlessly) to the point where no one dared to move a chair for anything.

A church isn't a place which has to be kept one way to keep God happy. A church building is a resource to be used. So i made a stain on the carpet at church, but who cares. A dirty mark or dozens of kids in the church on a weekday afternoon. We've had them around tables last week for a breakfast service and in different directions for different things, and no one has complained (yet)

So, please, to anyone in a church...let your minister move the chairs, let him or her make a mess - they've probably thought about it beforehand.