Spot the Difference Competition.

Look very carefully. Take your time. Click on them to zoom in to make it easier for yourself. If you can spot any differences please post them below. The winner will receive several lifetimes' supply of woodchip.

I'm not one to be grateful for deforestation but in this case I am glad that these trees have been removed from our hall. They block out light, roosting birds have created problems with noise, mess and smell, and the trees have now encroached into the building resulting in structural problems. Good questions to ask would be why were the trees planted there in the first place and why were they not kept to an appropriate size as they grew? Don't know the answers only to say it happened before the SA owned the building.

These trees stand (or used to stand) as a metphor for much of what is wrong with the church. The need for radical surgery now is due to a lack of husbandry in times gone by. We need to look at the organic nature of the kingdom and develope a healthier attitude to pruning. Paula and I are so grateful that the corps programme in Selby had been reduced before we had arrived to a single Sunday meeting, the rest being pared back to allow us a fresh start. We hope that we have the honesty to keep looking at what we are doing and be prepared to take out the pruning shears in the future when appropriate.