Brick by brick: What Lego’s unexpected comeback can teach a declining church

As many UK church denominations are faced with continued decline leading to extinction, is it time to learn from Lego’s ‘back to basics’ approach? Martin Saunders investigates 

In the early 2000s, the Christian writer Nick Page penned a fictional series of articles for this magazine under the title ‘Church Invisible’. They were designed to give the body of Christ a kind of worst-case scenario for its own future. The articles are still available to read in the premierchristianity.com archive, so I won’t spoil them, but here’s the central idea: in 2040, the British Church has all but disappeared.