Big Questions
Can someone who doesn't feel Christian (never mind any loyalty to a particular denomination) lead a church? Can someone who is tired of religion and the standard explainations of God, life, the universe and everything?
What if 2,000 years of Christian Traditions have simply led us way off track - what if all we assume about how Christianity should look is very, very wrong?
What is church anyway - a gathering place for believers, or for the lost, for those seeking a Way (even if they're not sure what exactly that is)?
And if it's the latter - what will church look like? How does it escape the set expectations of those already at a decidedly Christian (and denominational) destination, and encourage those far from any destination at all?
Is reaching a destination important?
Should it even be called church?
What if 2,000 years of Christian Traditions have simply led us way off track - what if all we assume about how Christianity should look is very, very wrong?
What is church anyway - a gathering place for believers, or for the lost, for those seeking a Way (even if they're not sure what exactly that is)?
And if it's the latter - what will church look like? How does it escape the set expectations of those already at a decidedly Christian (and denominational) destination, and encourage those far from any destination at all?
Is reaching a destination important?
Should it even be called church?
posted by Michelle at 5:08 pm
1 Comments:
My opinions are all I can give, really, to answer your questions (and some seem more like statements than questions, but that's fine):
If someone doesn't follow Christ, they might lead a church, but it wouldn't be a church that follows Christ, now would it? They'd follow someone or something else. 'Christian' shouldn't be allowed to be a bad word.
Doesn't matter much if they're tired of the old traditions and standard explanations, unless they're rejecting those for selfish reasons.
Church is where people come to praise, worship, fellowship, and learn about their Divine Being, whether it's one I would recognize as divine or not.
The next church wave will probably grow into something just as wrong, but in different ways, as the church they fight against, now. Humans have pinpoint accuracy when it comes to overdoing it and ending up getting it wrong. We all make mistakes, we're not going to be able to keep them out of our churches of any sort, until we're back under God's direct care.
No, I think GOING on the destination is important, not reaching it. Who reaches their utmost, in pursuit of God while they're living on the Earth?
And why not call it church, if it follows the basic principles of church?
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