Church-less Christianity
As I was cleaning up my bookmarks in Firefox (which you should be using by the way) I ran across the following quote.
“Church-less Christianity is like sex-less marriage—it can only last one generation.â€Â (Keith Drury)
Mr. Drury is a professor at Indiana Wesleyan University. He was responding to some comments about his thoughts on Barna’s book Revolution.
August 20th, 2006 at 10:53 pm
My guess is that Mr. Drury did not read the book carefully or he is looking for some personal notoriety which one gets for attacking what is currently popular or in vogue.
Barna does not say that the church is not functioning nor will it be in 25 years. He merely describes the shape that it will have at that time compared to its present form. All of what is described in the first church in Acts 2:42 is happening in most of the “para-church” organizations to which Barna says people will move in the next 25 years. People want to be encouraged and led to become more Christ-like and if a church is not focusing on that goal it soon becomes powerless and irrelevant whatever the form.