If nothing else, the name ‘Messy Church’ was an inspiration: it begs the question, ‘What on earth is it?’ and it makes people smile. The idea comes partly from the observation in Pete Ward’s book, Liquid Church (Paternoster Press, 2002), that ‘a liquid church will have fuzzy edges’.Pete uses parents and toddler groups as an example of a network close to the church community when he says:
"With the parents and tots we see that the...