Breaking out of our "forms" One of the things that 2020 and the Covid-19 crisis has exposed, is that Churches are set on their "forms": their ways of working and doing things, and that breaking out of those is tricky! My experience is with those churches who are "free churches": we are not bound by Bishops or canon law, yet we find it hard to think beyond our inherited ways. This has meant that over the years there have been battles about the "forms": the way we organised services and set things up. We had struggles over the music, the so called "worship-wars", the issues around charismatic renewal and the place of the gifts of the Spirit in our gatherings. In the 2000's along came the "emerging church" movement, which tried to approach things in new ways, leading to "fresh expressions". And things have changed. But in many ways we are still struggling to break free from a Christendom mindset (see Stuart Murray...