christian leapfroggers
Image that you drive an ambulance. You are on the way to the hospital and blocking your path in the street are 2 men in suits fighting. They are so embroiled that they do not hear your ambulance. You get out assuming that this will be easy...maybe the men are deaf and you just need to shoo them off of the street.
Not the case. The men continue to bicker and do not move. You do not see how you can go around. You have a person in serious need in your care. You take a breath and decided to attempt to enter the argument in order to create timely peace for all. You discover that the men are each CEOs of competing fortune 500 companies. They are arguing about which is better: the 8 track or the cassette tape! At that point you decide to get back into your ambulance and find your way around, even if it means a little backtrack.
I bet that this is the way most of the people under the age of 30 and millions more view the "discussion" that goes on within the christian church leadership world.
I am speaking of that which we endlessly and emotionally "discuss" over and over again in meetings, conferences, blogs, etc. Things like: which model is better: the mega church or the smaller missional church? Mulit gen stuff or niche stuff? This preaching or that? This worship guy or that? This time slot or that?
I have listened to countless good, raised going to church 20 year olds; many of them serious/real Jesus disciples. I especially listen to young people because half of the people in the world today are under the age of 30. While they are are very respectful of their elders attempts to save their church attendance, they know the answer is not found in that discussion. i wholeheartedly agree.
Sometimes we christians get downright mean with each other. Somehow its deemed ok?: to call someone with a Godly track record doing good a heretic because he does not completely agree with you on an interpretation of a Jesus told kingdom parable. Do we not see our own hypocrisy?
I have listened to countless non christian people for whom this is their view of christianity. Their take away: who needs to be part of that? I dont blame them at all.
I think that most of what is being discussed has now become a foolish dispute; where it has birthed more criticalness than loving action. Other people hear it too: George Barna tried telling us 20 years ago that the next generation was not going to look like the current generation as far as sunday mega church. The facts reveal reality. Is it not obvious? There is not one right way to do church. Why is it that if we find a right way that we think it must never change? Why do we think that if we just change the worship music it'll all be ok?
What happens to all of those under 30 Jesus followers, or not for that matter, that are just going to drive around the endless chatter to save someone?
They leapfrog.
They jump right over a decade or two of incremental change into the current stream of life. Although leapfrogging has its difficulties, it becomes the way survive and thrive for a people group in danger. Cell phones, wireless internet and solar lighting are examples of leapfrogging in 3rd world countries.
What does leapfrogged church look like?.
Its been happening you know.........(another blog)!
Id love to know what you see......
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