You may or may not know that in the UK the Charity Commissioners have been tightening laws on what can be a charity and decided that all charities must be ‘of public benefit’.

This has resulted in some panic as some Christians felt that church and Christian charities may no longer be able to be charities.

The Dranes blog in more detail here but I think this quote is a challenge to us all:

‘…it looks as if the Charity Commission has more confidence in the transformational power of the Gospel than some Christians, as they clearly state that ‘Charities whose aims include advancing religion do not have to undertake secular activities in addition to their religious activities in order to meet the public-benefit requirement.’

Was this panic due to a lack of faith in our own gospel – I think this throws up a lot of questions about how we view mission and the confidence we, as Christians, place in the power of the gospel.