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Questions, questions...

You may have heard that the answer to the ultimate question - about life, the universe and everything -  is 42, especially if you follow the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series by Douglas Adams.

A question markOn Share we can't quite stretch to 42, but we can give you just one less by providing 41 answers to frequently asked questions about fresh expressions of church.

Questions such as:

  • So when two Christians meet at a bus stop, is that a fresh expression of church?
  • Isn't the more traditional or inherited way of being church more appropriate?
  • My minister is not interested in fresh expressions. What can I do next?
  • Aren't fresh expressions really just pandering to a consumer society?

If you want to see the answers to these and more, hop on over to our Q&A page where there is a link to download a FAQ (Frequently Asked Questions) file in pdf format, with 41 questions and answers.

Each of these 41 questions will soon be available on individual webpages, so that you don't have to download the whole file just to read one question and answer, and so that comments can be left on relevant pages.

Of course, you may have different answers to some of these questions, or even disagree with them. If so, please leave a comment at the bottom of the Q&A page ... or even pose a question of your own so that Share users can pool their knowledge and help each other out.

 

Comments

hang on

Posted by Laurence Keith on 22 January 2008 - 12:38

woah nelly... if you take the sybolism from the Pixies (Frank Black et al) then the number of man is 5, the number of a certain dark Lord is 6.

but that's just the pixies.

42

Posted by David Keen on 19 January 2008 - 16:19

You actually do have the answer: in Hebrew number symbolism 6 = the number for humanity, 7 = the number of perfection, so 42 stands for a person who is the result of the sum 6*7, i.e. the perfect human.

And there was only ever one of those....

Posted by Andrew Wooding on 21 January 2008 - 16:08

I like that answer. Thanks!

Andrew