Are you keeping planned developments under regular review?
A Church engaged in any of these processes needs to pause once a year to answer the question: What have we done in the past year to improve the local community scene? In traditional terms this is about John Wesley’s quest for ‘social holiness’ (wholeness). In all this we need to ensure that our first commitment is worship as a faith community and to know that we live by God’s kindness and not by ticking boxes – useful though it is. Without such loving kindness the Church is but an empty shell, however well presented!