Thank you for this very interesting blog. I am reminded of a response some years ago to yet another (tedious) fact finding questionnaire about mission and growth, when the response of the parish to which I belong to a series of questions about working towards targets was not 'We do these things to grow', but rather 'We grow because we do these things' (several of which were absent from the diocesan agenda as I remember). And there is definitely something about local identity rather than corporate strategies in that response.
Thank you for this very interesting blog. I am reminded of a response some years ago to yet another (tedious) fact finding questionnaire about mission and growth, when the response of the parish to which I belong to a series of questions about working towards targets was not 'We do these things to grow', but rather 'We grow because we do these things' (several of which were absent from the diocesan agenda as I remember). And there is definitely something about local identity rather than corporate strategies in that response.
Thanks John.