Your church will not be here in 2031
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The institutional church is collapsing. The typical mainline congregation is struggling.
But we mostly don’t know why. We just know there’s tons of stress, and things don’t work as well as they used to.
We keep believing we can do the things we’ve always done and get different results.
We can’t. That’s the good news.
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In a way maybe we need to look to Jesus as he lived, he built the community from the ground up, from a fractured people battered by occupation and political division.
Back then, it wasn’t about buildings or hymns or liturgy, it was about the togetherness, in praising God and hearing the good news from his Son. I’ve always wondered whether this was always the end point of the reformation, going back to street ministry and abandoning formal structures/buildings. I’ve never thought it through fully, and a theologian would make mincemeat of it, but it’s a thought i repeatedly have.