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Breakpoint

The Not So Church of England

Breakpoint

Colson Center

News, Religion & Spirituality, News Commentary, Christianity

4.82.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2024

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

What's in a name?

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Hi Breakpoint listeners. In collaboration with Focus on the Family, I'm excited to announce

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Lighthouse Voices Returns on September 10th at 7 PM Eastern. Lighthouse Voices is a live streamed event series designed to help Christians

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navigate today's cultural landscape with truth and love. We'll be talking about resilient

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faith in a digital world with Samuel James, author of the new book

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Digital Liturgies. Contrary to what we may think, technology is not neutral, the

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mindless act of scrolling on our phones and consuming digital

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content does something to us. It profoundly shapes the way we relate to God and

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truth. James will highlight five ways digital habits have slowly starved our souls and will

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point us to the abundant life we can enjoy when we trade digital addiction for godly wisdom.

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This faith-shaping conversation will be followed by a

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Q&A and book signing. To attend via live stream or in person in Holland, Michigan

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register for free today at Coulson Center.org

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slash Lighthouse. That's Coulson Center dot O.G slash Lighthouse. house.

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Welcome to to break point, a daily look and an ever-changing culture through the lens of

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unchanging truth.

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For the Colston Center, I'm John Stone Street.

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Well according to a recent news story the Church of England plans to drop the word

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church from its name. As it turns out this was not any act, but it was only from an internal report,

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from some local congregations who are looking to rebrand.

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According to the report, words like congregation and community better explain new outreaches like youth groups and

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sports ministries that don't meet in one of the Church of England's cathedrals or churches.

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Of those surveyed, quote, not one diocese used the term church in their main descriptor.

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