Just a quick one to ask questions over some of the new church projects shouting (about themselves) being some daring, couragious approach to 'doing church.' You can call your vision what you want and some people will follow the promise of 'new' and 'bold' but to be any of these things you need to ...er... to be new and bold? Most of todays church outreaches are following the same old formats that have seen only a percentage of long term disciples made compared to the amount of money that is piled into salaries and resources needed to make it 'work.' The formats we see people merging to seem to follows the Hills success in Sydney. Essentially these follow buisness formats where leadership is tiered, following one visionary leader.
The bible is clear about what church is and also what it isnt (read 1 corinthians). Anyone doing works to further God's Kingdom has a definate thumbs up from me for sure, but "IN WHOSE NAME" is a growing concern among bible believing Christians. Read 'the numbers game' on this blog for more about the myth of 'filling halls for Jesus.'
I would like to arrange a meeting with several church leaders to discuss the bible's version of church and theirs. Sadly over years public discussion has been avaoided by such *extremely bold or daring; recklessly brave; fearless* leaders. Funny that!
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Well said that man
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