Things that drive me nuts about established Christianity, a short list.
1. It doesn’t consistently reflect Jesus.
2. It often promotes an inaccurate image of God.
3. It makes church into something God never intended.
4. It talks about grace but often doesn’t live it.
5. It trivializes the reality of heaven and hell.
6. It trivializes the purpose of worship.
7. It trivializes theology.
8. It promotes Christians that church hop.
9. Many (if not most) Christians that don’t understand the gospel.
10. It reduces life and eternal stuff down into buffet style, pithy one-liners, driven by guys with egos, programs, or some other religious crap.
Some solutions, plant a church where people besides just me can say:
1. We seek to reflect Jesus seven days a week.
2. We seek to promote the true God even though we admit we certainly aren’t perfect.
3. We seek to clarify the identity of the church as a people and not a place.
4. We seek to exemplify every aspect of grace.
5. We seek to be honest about eternity both heaven and hell.
6. We seek to learn what God meant by he seeks those who will worship in spirit and truth.
7. We seek to give theology a central place in our worship since it is what God designed to educate us about Him.
8. We seek to make it abundantly clear that God doesn’t want us to date the local church.
9. We hope teach and live out the gospel by spelling it so people can live it out.
10. We hope to make Sunday service the high part of the week that launches into service throughout the week. We hope we move people in their relationship with God from curiosity to courting to life long commitment. We hope.
Bottom Line: I am a man filled with hope for what God may do.
Possibly related posts:
- The Dirty Secret of Evangelical Christianity, Prt. 1
- mere or more Christianity?
- Gospel Centered Theology by Danny
- Why Church
- Advent