But we cannot afford to look back with longing and cling to the safety of the past. We have to live now. We have to make new disciples now, and that means forfeiting some of our cherished traditions which are appropriate only to past culture and to present the timeless, changeless truth of the Gospel in ways which are relevant and comprehensible to people today. This doesn’t make comfortable reading - where else is there that we ‘wrinklies’ can feel safe - but Jesus Christ did not call his people to be ‘safe’ and ‘comfortable'. He calls us to follow him on a road of his choosing, a road to make new disciples ... and who else is there to do it now, but US!
Some of our chapels are actually growing. Some have active youth congregations or alternative forms of worship which attract young families and other younger adults. Some still have only the survivors of the congregation of fifty years ago - but all of us are challenged during next year, a year of hope, to Love Cornwall enough to share the lifesaving Gospel with our villages and towns, to bring the Truth of Christ back into our beloved Kernow.