Jesus Outside the Box

This post is from the defunct blog “Dying Church”

From Jesus Outside the Box, a blog that explores faith outside of the institutional church:

Despite all this, instead of modeling a reliance on God, many churches tend to: equate singing with worship, make church attendance a fruit of the spirit, use demographics as an excuse for picking and choosing to whom they minister, mandate an Old Testament tithe rather than modeling New Testament generosity, promote the model of pastor as CEO and run their organizations like they're each a subsidiary of Jesus, Inc. rather than the family of God.