What do you do when your system fall apart, because the new thing God is
doing is better, beyond, superior, more compelling.--Rob Bell in Jesus Wants
to Save Christians p. 101.
Great question in my book, because our "Church System" is falling apart. The church as we know it today was built during the dawn of the modern era out of the ash heap of the Dark Ages. The church made that transition because it imagined a new tomorrow--where it could be more of what God wanted it to be (more compelling, superior, beyond). This is why we had the Protestant Reformation--and the Catholic Counter-reformation.
Today we stand at the dawn of a new era that is rising out of the ashes of the failed promises of the modern era and the enlightenment project. People are imagining a new tomorrow and are out to transform the institutions of our society because they did not deliver what they promised. The church as an institution is no exception. It will either find itself increasingly irrelevant and continue to operate in a "modern" mode, or it will begin to realize that God has something better, beyond, superior, and more compelling and re-imagine a new way of doing and being the church.
What are your thoughts on church? Are you frustrated with it? Do you wonder why it just doesn't seem to get it? Do you want it to be much more than it is? Do you think it is falling apart? What do you do if you think it is falling apart? Do you think God has something better for the church than what it is today?
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