Saturday, 19 August 2006
iChurch
I just had a quick read through the Summer '06 issue of Leadership. The theme for the issue was "iChurch".
This ties up with how Michael Frost describes the tendency in churches in the west: we tend to produce fat, lazy Christians who are ill-equipped to do anything other than suckle at the church's teats. Church programmes have become about meeting people's (perceived) needs. Christians can go church-shopping for the church that best caters to them and they do.
There was an example of a church that decided that it wasn't going to be attractive to consumers anymore and started to redirect its resources away from the stuff that had helped it to grow. Memebership halved.
This ties up with how Michael Frost describes the tendency in churches in the west: we tend to produce fat, lazy Christians who are ill-equipped to do anything other than suckle at the church's teats. Church programmes have become about meeting people's (perceived) needs. Christians can go church-shopping for the church that best caters to them and they do.
There was an example of a church that decided that it wasn't going to be attractive to consumers anymore and started to redirect its resources away from the stuff that had helped it to grow. Memebership halved.
# posted by Gareth Bezett @ 6:13 PM 
