There are many institutional groups trying to mimic what other groups do. Looking around at what others do, they try to reproduce it for themselves. But I don't personally find that very interesting, helpful or fruitful.
The picture we think we see may help us tweak what we do in comparison. But its merely replicating where a church has been. All that hard work to tweak and change is based on history, not the future.
If you want to know where the church is really going.... Listen. What are people saying? What I'm hearing is far different from what I'm seeing right now. People are not that interested in seeing church, as we know it, change. Being change, and being changed is what they are looking for. They want a genuine community sold into that and each other.
Some find that community within some local church structure. However, others are finding christian community somewhere else. That is a hard snapshot to capture for people used to a picture.
"The most important guy in Homeland Security? Not the one who monitors the photographs. A picture tells you what already happened. If you want to know what's going to happen, plug into the communications network and listen." (Leonard sweet. Nudge pg 146)
No comments:
Post a Comment