Rex MIller realigns the Post-Modern Church
Rex Miller made a great statement during his interview with BloggingChurch.com.
I think it’s a statement that will help the church navigate the post-modern era.
He said,
“The issue is not spiritual content - it’s everywhere. The issue is engagement, community.”
I think the church will become less and less about the sermon prepared and the content presented on Sunday morning and more about engagement. What are we doing to engage and connect people right away? What are the opportunities we are presenting for service? Where is the community within a large group?
The demand on leadership will be for experience, engagement, community, opportunity. Not television shows, video illustrations, and the books we’ve written.
December 9th, 2005 at 4:30 pm
That’s great that you got your comments fixed. But now, there’s a HUGE space between the end of your post and the comment link.
December 10th, 2005 at 10:55 am
I know. It’s always something. I can’t figure it out though.
December 12th, 2005 at 7:21 am
Interesting time to post this. My church, Apex is going through a huge realignment along this vein. We have crossed the 2000 per week mark with about 1500 members. We are looking into a third service, to begin sometime early 2006, but in the process the elders have recognized the need to drill down to the community aspect.
It is impossible for them as overseers of the body to oversee 2000 people. So the solution is to go back to the book of Acts and examine how the early church handled exponential growth while increasing spiritual depth. The result is: house churches. These will be extensions of the main gatherings, but focused on growing. They will be more than “small groups” in that they will truly act and function as the body of Christ, where all gifts are utilized not just one person preaching, but everyone serving and growing. Diffcult to implement? You bet. It’s radical and it’s going to stretch. Isn’t that what serving Christ is supposed to be?
December 19th, 2005 at 7:19 am
We’re coming to a time (5 years +) where infrastructure (buildings etc) will put many at a disadvantage. The cause of the shift
1. The first generation raised on interactive media will come of age (Wired Mag puts the tipping point at 1995).
2. Second - the 71million baby boomers will begin to fade with the next generation 42million stepping. That will create a huge (HUGE) hit on the economy.
3. Networked models will gain and put vertical models at a disadvantage.
Cohesion will come from relational structures (one growing alternative is the rise of social networks). It still gets down to F2F relationships, serving and community.
Rex