By John Cole

One-eyed Churches

Another chance to see whether you recognise your local church!

A useful way of discovering what God wants from us in the local church is to see where people direct their energies in the different traditions that make up the various Christian denominations in this country.

There seem to be four main sets of priorities - well represented, as it happens, by the four different traditions of churchmanship within the Church of England:

Taken to extremes, each one of these is in effect a ‘one-eyed church’. Each focuses, more or less exclusively, on just one aspect of what being God’s church is all about. Click on each tradition to see what it looks like!