The Ecclesialogical Bubble
I'm in the beginning stages of wrestling with an idea that is yet to be fully formed.
We've seen the bursting of several bubbles over the past couple years and will see a few more burst in the next few years to come.
Apart from the US medical bubble that will burst in the next few years I think that the church has been living beyond it's means over the past25 years and we are getting ready to pay the price. I'm not talking about a return to more traditional forms of worship or denominations, that has been happening for some time now, but a crashing of the very models and expressions of church that currently cultivate the definitions for success for the rest of the church. I'm not talking about mega churches crashing, I'm talking about an ideology and normative understanding of what it means to be the church as a society that is supported with duct tape and toothpicks when held against history. Again, if you are a denominational church feeling smug at the moment this especially goes for you.
we have been living outside our means. I'm not talking about this in some kind of spiritual sense either.
more to come.
We've seen the bursting of several bubbles over the past couple years and will see a few more burst in the next few years to come.
Apart from the US medical bubble that will burst in the next few years I think that the church has been living beyond it's means over the past25 years and we are getting ready to pay the price. I'm not talking about a return to more traditional forms of worship or denominations, that has been happening for some time now, but a crashing of the very models and expressions of church that currently cultivate the definitions for success for the rest of the church. I'm not talking about mega churches crashing, I'm talking about an ideology and normative understanding of what it means to be the church as a society that is supported with duct tape and toothpicks when held against history. Again, if you are a denominational church feeling smug at the moment this especially goes for you.
we have been living outside our means. I'm not talking about this in some kind of spiritual sense either.
more to come.
posted by mark at
11:48 PM
1 Comments:
From a very practical perspective, I think the new economic realities for churches will play a huge role in this. The cost of producing and paying for the mega-church models and large building facilities will force churches to rethink what they are doing.
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