Sack the Choir

Before I really get into trouble because people think I am advising my vicar to do this, fear not - it comes from this article which caught my eye.  And it was the comments as much as the main article.  A number of them suggested that the vicar was wrong to sack the choir because the impact was a reduction in numbers and, they assumed, giving.  Interestingly a churchwarden then posted that numbers are up as is giving!  Does that mean that those people who thought this was a bad thing now think that it is a good one?

And do we think that numbers are the only measure of success in a church?  Of course numbers count (groan J), but surely whether people are on a journey counts for something too?