The church’s problem is the secular age. We make the secular age worse because we see reality today with a secular lens. The essence of Andrew roots proposals, in a variety of publications and other media, is that we must shift from our pragmatic diagnosis of the problems we are facing in church decline, and turned to a deeper reality, namely we live in the secular age and we are using a secular lens to resolve a problem that cannot be solved by the secular lens in the secular age.
WOW. Okay, we're on a search, a task with the tools that have served us in the past but are completely inadequate for this present search. Perhaps what gets in our way are our assumptions about the task: We tend to let methods get in the way of relationship. Or we ignore the things in Scripture that don't fit our grid (easily done!). For example, when the apostle John states that "Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love," does this fact about God drive our thinking about the church's role in today's world? I think one of the best lines in today's post is this: “We are waiting in time for the eternal God to speak to us, to direct us, to lead us out in service to the world.” Waiting can be uncomfortable. We want to be doing. That may be our real problem.
WOW. Okay, we're on a search, a task with the tools that have served us in the past but are completely inadequate for this present search. Perhaps what gets in our way are our assumptions about the task: We tend to let methods get in the way of relationship. Or we ignore the things in Scripture that don't fit our grid (easily done!). For example, when the apostle John states that "Whoever does not love does not know God, because God is love," does this fact about God drive our thinking about the church's role in today's world? I think one of the best lines in today's post is this: “We are waiting in time for the eternal God to speak to us, to direct us, to lead us out in service to the world.” Waiting can be uncomfortable. We want to be doing. That may be our real problem.
Waiting requires discernment. When is waiting cowardice, or disobedience to the command to live my neighbor? This seems too simplistic and generic.
Purchased. Thank you, Scot. This is the focus I need.