Lay Forum

The Lay Forum is a space for open dialogue, inclusive action, and a positive progressive approach to Christianity. We aim to integrate critical scholarship and religious literacy with local action, exploring the future of the church today. Here's a place where it's OK to question. "Lay" comes from the Greek word, Laikos, meaning the people at large. To us all are welcome, no matter what status or position is held in or out of the church.

Download Peter Fensham's 10 easy-to-do studies for inquiring people. The 2010 study explores the world of lay people, attenders, ex-attenders and never attenders, before considering the illusion of belief, the illusion of language, the illusion of authority. The final three studies look at becoming a new church, new ways of being a minority church, and new ways of being church and Church in secular Australia. Download Here