Barney Coombs

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Barney Coombs (1937– 22 July 2018) was a British religious leader,

Coombs was ordained as pastor of Basingstoke Baptist Church (later becoming Basingstoke Community Churches) in 1966. He later moved to Canada to be based at West Coast Christian Fellowship in Vancouver. Coombs has written a number of books including A Guide to Practical Pastoring, Apostles Today, God’s Plan for Himself, Finding Your Purpose in God's Plan and Dealing with What Life Throws At You: How Life's Ups and Downs Can Lead Us to a Greater Intimacy with Jesus.

British New Church Movement

In the mid-late 1960s Coombs became involved in the restoration movement that grew around key charismatic figures such as

In the early 1970s Coombs became part of the "fabulous fourteen",[4] a group of leaders who sought to develop a theology and ecclesiology that would guide the restoration of the Church. Later that decade, however, leaders of the restoration movement diverged into two separate streams. "Restoration 1" followed the more conservative teachings of Arthur Wallis and Bryn Jones, while "Restoration 2" took a more relaxed view of cinema, popular music, and ‘secular’ culture, were generally less separatist in ecclesiology (contributing significantly to the resurgence of the Evangelical Alliance), and encouraged the leadership ministries of women. Coombs identified more closely with the "Restoration 1" stream which included the ministries of Terry Virgo, Bryn Jones and Tony Morton.

Salt and Light Ministries

Driven by the conviction that the body of Christ is in essence relational and would eventually come to fullness of stature, and influenced by the ideas of British restorationism, Coombs began to gather around him a number of other pastors and leaders with the same vision.

Theology

Central to the theology of Coombs was that the body of Christ is essentially relational and will eventually come to fullness of stature. The priesthood of all believers, the cross-centred gospel, the Kingdom of God, a victorious eschatology, and the summing up of all things in Christ are all important doctrines to Coombs and the Salt and Light network.

Death

After struggling with dementia since around 2016, Coombs suffered a serious brain haemorrhage in 2018, and died on Sunday 22 July 2018.^[1]

Bibliography

• A Guide to Practical Pastoring, Sovereign World, Ltd., June 1999 (
  ISBN 1-85240-240-7
  )
• Apostles Today, Sovereign World, Ltd., October 2000 (
  ISBN 1-85240-189-3
  )
• Finding Your Purpose in God's Plan, Destiny Image Publishers Ltd., 2003 (
  ISBN 0-7684-3019-4
  )
• Dealing with What Life Throws At You: How Life's Ups and Downs Can Lead Us to a Greater Intimacy with Jesus, Sovereign World, Ltd., January 2006 (
  ISBN 1-85240-397-7
  )