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The Church is like Elastic (19 May)

We recently held a meeting for Ministers in which we asked ‘what is God saying?’. I found what people shared as we zoomed thought provoking, encouraging and challenging but the phrase that has stuck with me since is ‘churches are like a piece of elastic. However much you stretch them, they always ping back into place’.

That comment inspired this ‘Thought for the Week’. The 4 minute video which can be found on the EBA YouTube Channel: The Church is like Elastichttps://youtu.be/bOoxab_3FpI.

No pieces of elastic were harmed in the making of this film!

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