Doh!
Check this out, first.
I hope I live long enough to see the church be what God intended for it to be. Every 100 years, or so, a radical change takes the church back to what we find in the book of Acts. And it almost always begins with a paradigm shift, or as I like to call it a Homer Simpson moment.
You know- "DOH!", when someone gets it right, you know they've got it right, you've even acknowledged at some point that their right, and they're finally calling everyone to the carpet on it, you know?
One minister who's going to get the church there faster than anyone else is Francis Chan . It is so moving, if not refreshing to see a guy in the pulpit actually preaching the things I've been saying about the church for almost 20 years, now:
"Why do we always default to what we've always done, even when there is no example of such in the Bible?"
Well, this guy is right up my alley. Things that we do which "don't make sense" but we call it "Christ's church,"...such things don't belong. Remember Sesame Street's "One of these things is not like the other?" Well, today's church is not like the church of the New Testament, and I am not the first to say it.
Despite the fact that he wasn't sure where he heard it, Chan's quote is painfully true, but riveting -
Are we too far gone to get our hooks wet, again?
I hope I live long enough to see the church be what God intended for it to be. Every 100 years, or so, a radical change takes the church back to what we find in the book of Acts. And it almost always begins with a paradigm shift, or as I like to call it a Homer Simpson moment.
You know- "DOH!", when someone gets it right, you know they've got it right, you've even acknowledged at some point that their right, and they're finally calling everyone to the carpet on it, you know?One minister who's going to get the church there faster than anyone else is Francis Chan . It is so moving, if not refreshing to see a guy in the pulpit actually preaching the things I've been saying about the church for almost 20 years, now:
"Why do we take communion the way we do on Sunday mornings?"
"Why do we think church is a sermon and some songs, or why do we call it "my time with God?"
"Why do we always default to what we've always done, even when there is no example of such in the Bible?"
Well, this guy is right up my alley. Things that we do which "don't make sense" but we call it "Christ's church,"...such things don't belong. Remember Sesame Street's "One of these things is not like the other?" Well, today's church is not like the church of the New Testament, and I am not the first to say it.
Despite the fact that he wasn't sure where he heard it, Chan's quote is painfully true, but riveting -
"God's intention is that we be "fishers of men," and instead we've become an aquarium."
Are we too far gone to get our hooks wet, again?
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