Five Changes
Sunday, February 8, 2009 at 8:50AM This post is from the defunct blog "Dying Church"
Interesting answer to a good question by David Fitch (found via):
If you had to list 5 of the most important elements that you would like to see changed in local churches across America, what would those 5 things be?
OK here’s 4 off the top of my head. 1.) Less emphasis on success and growth, more on authentic Christian living and discipleship. This is the obedience God is looking for. 2.) Less on pandering to Christians who have little time but more money, and more pandering to the poor who have more time and less money 3.) Concentrate more on the simple stuff where one encounters the transcendent living God, less on programming that 4.) Leadership that listens and responds to what God is doing, not orchestrating the future they learned at business school.
Reader Comments (1)
1) Get rid of the titles 2) Burn the buildings 3) Do away with the Sunday services - meet throughout the week - don't you need Christ on the weekdays? 4) Listen to ALL the members of the body, not just the "leaders" - Oh I forgot, without titles, you don't have leaders anymore 5) Meet to get to know Christ in the body, not Christ through the eyes of some Pie-in-the-sky academic who learned his theology from an elite and has probably never gone wanting a day in their life.