Responses to “New Kind of Christian”

 

 

 

 

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You are always baiting people.  This time I hope some of the younger people take the bait.  The best way to reach more people is to plant more churches.

 

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Boomer churches are at their zenith and about to go into a long period of decline.  They are like the downtown churches of the 1950’s—they appear to control the entire market share of Christians. But the truth is they are like the church growth movement was in the 1980’s—in command but about to disintegrate.  I have little hope that boomers will be able to adapt to the next generation. We are too self-absorbed and happy with the innovations we introduced.  The only hope for tomorrow’s church is if some of your discontented students go out actually start new churches.  I say go for it. Our church will even support them—for a while.

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I don’t have time to reply to your article because I took your advice before you gave it—I am planting a Christian community now and I am loving it!  My father thinks we aren’t; even a “real church” but that’s exactly how I feel about his church too. ;-)

 

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Great article! My hope is of course that people will lay down their cards and play.

But, let me ask: Why don't we want to lay down our cards?

 (1) The stakes are too high.  We have put too much money in the pot so far that we are aggravated when someone calls us.  We want to "buy the pot" with our complaints, so that everyone else folds and our ideas win.  It’s of course hopeless, because the boomers have too good a hand to fold at the moment.  "Call" means the game is over and we have to really show our cards -- and we know we only have a low two pair!

(2) Which comes to the further point.  We are bluffing.  And you have called our bluff.  We really want church to meet our needs in a particular way.  We don't want to actually make the church this way for others .

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I just "planted" last Saturday. (In the subject line with no message added)

 

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