Organic Church: Growing Faith Where Life Happens

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  This book was published in 2005, so I am a little late in reading it, and I have only read a small portion. It has been on my shelf for a while, and I finally have gotten to it. Here is a quote from the "introduction" that should cause us to take pause: "Under the banner of reaching the unchurched, we spend much time thinking up ways to make this sacred hour on Sundays relevant to them so that they will want to come. Books, seminars, audiotapes, magazines, and Websites are devo... (show more)

  This book was published in 2005, so I am a little late in reading it, and I have only read a small portion. It has been on my shelf for a while, and I finally have gotten to it. Here is a quote from the "introduction" that should cause us to take pause: "Under the banner of reaching the unchurched, we spend much time thinking up ways to make this sacred hour on Sundays relevant to them so that they will want to come. Books, seminars, audiotapes, magazines, and Websites are devoted to finding ways to make the Sunday experience so impressie to lost people that they too will want our Jesus. Do we really think that they will actually be impressed by our performance and that this will lead them to want to be among the churched?...It amazes me to consider how much effort and how many resources (time, money, and people) are expended for a single hour once a week. We have made church nothing more than a religious show that takes place on Sunday, and after it's done we all go home, until church starts again next week, same time, same place. Is this what the brid of Christ is?" (show less)

   

  by Kevin Riggs on May 04, 2009 at 04:01PM

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  You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. This is the book for those of you who have a thought that was like a splinter in your mind. This thought was that there had to be something different than Church the way you have been experiencing it. Is there something more? Yes. I agree with Neil Cole, We need to lower the bar for what it means to be a church and raise the bar for what it means to be a disciple. Don't read this book if you want to b... (show more)

  You take the red pill - you stay in Wonderland and I show you how deep the rabbit-hole goes. This is the book for those of you who have a thought that was like a splinter in your mind. This thought was that there had to be something different than Church the way you have been experiencing it. Is there something more? Yes. I agree with Neil Cole, We need to lower the bar for what it means to be a church and raise the bar for what it means to be a disciple. Don't read this book if you want to be satisfied with your life the way it is! (show less)

   

   

  by Ken Chupp on Nov 02, 2009 at 12:12AM

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