Feb 17, 4:20 PM EST
Uncertainty after ruling in NY school worship case
By JIM FITZGERALD
Associated press
NEW YORK (AP) -- Religious congregations whose worship services were evicted from New York City's public schools scrambled Friday to deal with an 11th-hour injunction that said they could stay.
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This is a real opportunity to rethink their approach. Do you really need a building? Is church a place that you invite people too or is it the people who engage society? The Anglican Church in North America was given a great opportunity to shed old armor and run for the prize. When many left the episcopal church they took a mindset of survival versus expansion. They were concerned with creating Anglicans the right way instead of making disciples. Many of them also went the route of school and then on to brick and mortar. I believed some missed a great opportunity to take the gospel into new forms for the good of the kingdom.
New York churches have the same opportunity. Embrace the sufferings of Christ not fight them. If a seed doesn't die it will not multiply.
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