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Gone for good #15 : conclusions
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Over the last two weeks I've been ploughing through the fifteen different reasons why people are leaving the church according to Leslie Francis and Philip Richter's recent book 'Gone for Good'. In this final post of the series I want to pull it all together with a look at their final chapter in which they come to some tentative conclusions about possible ways forward. The metaphor that is developed here is that of the 'multiplex' church. Our vision of the church of the future is that of the 'multiplex' church. The multiplex church offers different perspectives on the same faith, different perspectives on the same eternal truths.
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