ecclesiology Archives - Brian Harris https://brianharrisauthor.com/tag/ecclesiology/ Tue, 05 Aug 2025 02:18:28 +0000 en-AU hourly 1 https://i0.wp.com/brianharrisauthor.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/08/cropped-brianharrisauthor-favicon-1.png?fit=32%2C32&ssl=1 ecclesiology Archives - Brian Harris https://brianharrisauthor.com/tag/ecclesiology/ 32 32 93416650 Refresh: Churched, Un-Churched and De-Churched https://brianharrisauthor.com/refresh-churched-un-churched-and-de-churched/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/refresh-churched-un-churched-and-de-churched/#respond Tue, 29 Apr 2025 22:00:00 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=5550 This was a relatively early post on this blog – dating all the way back to Nov 2015 – but continues to be one of the most frequently downloaded. If anything, the topic is even more pertinent a decade later. Churched, Un-Churched and De- Churched If you’re up with the discussions on the future of […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/when-church-is-beautiful/feed/ 5 4535 Towards a 21st Century Church (2): Time for the 500 year Rummage Sale? https://brianharrisauthor.com/towards-a-21st-century-church-2-time-for-the-500-year-rummage-sale/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/towards-a-21st-century-church-2-time-for-the-500-year-rummage-sale/#comments Wed, 01 May 2019 22:00:30 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=3179 In my earlier blog post “Towards a 21st Century Church”, I discussed four assumptions we should challenge if we are to make a constructive journey towards the future. In this post I explore Phyllis Tickle’s contested but thought provoking thesis that roughly every 500 years a “great emergence” occurs within Christianity during which a new […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/towards-a-21st-century-church-2-time-for-the-500-year-rummage-sale/feed/ 6 3179 Quotable: Rachel Held Evans, Searching for Sunday – Take 2 https://brianharrisauthor.com/quotable-rachel-held-evans-searching-for-sunday-take-2/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/quotable-rachel-held-evans-searching-for-sunday-take-2/#respond Sun, 25 Nov 2018 22:00:38 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=3069 Last week we looked at some of the notable quotes with which Rachel Held Evans starts different chapters of her 2015 book Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving and Finding the Church. This week we look at some of her own insights from the book, which as the title suggests, explores her journey of loving, leaving and […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/quotable-rachel-held-evans-searching-for-sunday-take-2/feed/ 0 3069 Quotable: Rachel Held Evans – Searching for Sunday https://brianharrisauthor.com/quotablerachel-held-evans-searching-for-sunday/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/quotablerachel-held-evans-searching-for-sunday/#comments Sun, 18 Nov 2018 22:00:26 +0000 https://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=3065 Rachel Held Evans 2015 book Searching for Sunday: Loving, Leaving and Finding the Church is well worth the read. As the sub title suggests, it is a book about loving, leaving and finding the church – and tells of a journey well worth pondering. Each chapter starts with a quote from a noteworthy figure, or a […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/quotablerachel-held-evans-searching-for-sunday/feed/ 2 3065 In Praise of Smaller Churches: 10 Positives… https://brianharrisauthor.com/in-praise-of-smaller-churches/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/in-praise-of-smaller-churches/#comments Wed, 26 Sep 2018 22:00:07 +0000 http://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=3010 Almost every church I come into contact with (and over the years, that has been a fair few), wants to be bigger than it presently is. They look a little enviously at churches in the next size category, and imagine that if that were them, most of their problems would be solved. Their pastor (if […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/in-praise-of-smaller-churches/feed/ 10 3010 Is there a place for denominations? https://brianharrisauthor.com/is-there-a-place-for-denominations/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/is-there-a-place-for-denominations/#comments Mon, 05 Sep 2016 22:00:03 +0000 http://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=2151 It has become common to declare that we live in a post-denominational era. Increasingly church attenders are indifferent to the label a particular congregation might carry… Presbyterian, Baptist, Vineyard, Church of Christ… whatever. Indeed, many churches declare to the public that they are simply the local community church, sometimes using a verb to describe their […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/is-there-a-place-for-denominations/feed/ 2 2151 What does a healthy church look like? https://brianharrisauthor.com/what-does-a-healthy-church-look-like/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/what-does-a-healthy-church-look-like/#comments Mon, 02 May 2016 22:00:49 +0000 http://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=1771 We’ve had a few posts on churchless faith and the journey towards becoming de-churched. Underneath has been the assumption that the church has in some way disappointed and failed to be what she should be. And in most cases if you ask those who have given up on the church ‘why?’ they would cite a […]

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]]> https://brianharrisauthor.com/what-does-a-healthy-church-look-like/feed/ 6 1771 So what is church? Part 1 Church, a simple but powerful idea… https://brianharrisauthor.com/so-what-is-church/ https://brianharrisauthor.com/so-what-is-church/#comments Mon, 18 Jan 2016 22:00:43 +0000 http://brianharrisauthor.com/?p=1429 We kicked off this short series on the church by looking at the relatively new but rapidly growing phenomena of churchless faith. I wanted to start with that post because the word church increasingly has a lot of emotional baggage attached to it. For many it smacks of control, abuse of power, manipulation, politics and thought control […]

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