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Raw Faith: You Can’t Handle It
Posted by Mike Boyink
So God found me and impressed upon me the need to learn how to be in relationship with other people—not my strong suit up to that point. It seemed like church was the place I should do that. We became regular church attendees. Just like that. I never missed a Sunday. Like I always do with things I’m passionate about, I jumped in hard and fast. We hosted home groups, though we didn’t lead them. That was left to the more experienced. We volunteered to help with set-up, and Children’s Ministry. We attended prayer groups and retreats. I availed myself of the healing prayer that the church offered because I needed a lot of healing. I was asked to share my story at church, for which I wrote a no-holds barred 15 minute sermonette. When I finished speaking the pastor said, half jokingly, “You’re hired”. It seemed an odd comment to me. Something was wrong. What I wanted was more of Jesus. What I was getting was more of church. Full Post >>
An interesting post from someone considering themselves “unchurched”. Link via e-church.com where Tim Bednar comments:
I guess I want the church to help the congregation discover and realize their dreams and visions, rather than always being expected to fulfill whatever the church feels is important. (Notice I make a distinction between the church and the congregation.) This is an example of how the church has one conversation and the congregation has a totally other one.
This is more prevalent in the mega-church model where CEO-pastors cast visions, then delegate strategic tasks to people who are spiritual gifted to realize this vision.