I believe that the church today has gone astray in the way it goes about church: instead of focussing on the essentials – like reading and understanding the Bible, praising God and prayer, and loving one another – church has become superficial and institutionalised. People think that being a Christian is about going to church for an hour a week on a Sunday morning, rather than living for God day-by-day.

Over the last few years, I’ve been rethinking a lot of what I used to believe about what church should be. Given that I’m all about trying to understand the Bible, I went back to the Bible to see what God has to say to us. You can see what I came up with in my series, Rethinking Church.

Church with UTB is my attempt to help put things right: Church with UTB is about helping Christians to meet together. I don’t provide a ‘service’ or a structure, but I do provide an online tool with the ability to access songs, videos, and the Bible. The aim is to help us see church gatherings as something we participate in, rather than something we passively consume. Think of Paul’s words from 1 Corinthians 14:

When you come together, each of you has a hymn, or a word of instruction, a revelation, a tongue or an interpretation. Everything must be done so that the church may be built up. 1 Corinthians 14:26

Paul’s vision for church gatherings was that everyone would contribute – it wasn’t something which people could sit down and listen to!

See my post introducing Church with UTB and an update for more of my thinking behind this.

Songs

I record songs specifically to be used for Church with UTB, and sometimes I write songs. You can find out more about this on the Songs page.