Why bother with Church?
by Simon Jones - Sep 2001

• Stop the church, I want to get off
• Why battle on?
• Why is this happening?
• For the in-crowd only
• You'd better believe it
• Do as we say, don't do as we do
• Split personality
• A community of sinners

Simon Jones is a Baptist Minister (of Peckham Park Road Baptist Church, SE London) working with BMS.

In previous lives he has been a financial journalist and editor of (what was) Christianity magazine. He's chairman of PECAN, the urban renewal project in Peckham, which is a charity helping local unemployed people back into work. He is also the Baptist Union's representative on the steering group of an interchurch enquiry into unemployment and the future of work.