A few weeks ago I was recording some of the many thoughts that float through my mind everyday. On that particular day I was thinking about all the "re's" that we read about in books, blogs, and hear on the radio. We have Re-think Conference , Re-inventing Jesus , Re-imagining the Church , Re-Jesus , Re-structuring the Church, Re-write Church History, and the list could go on and on.
Then we have a bunch of words that end with "al". Missional, Attractional, Incarnational, Reformissional, and Conversational.
We have Contemplative Spirituality, Spiritual Mapping, Prayer Walking, Walking the Labyrinth, Centering Prayer, Lecto Devina and on and on and....
We have "Shift", and Everything Must Change .
When will all this Evangelical Doping stop? Why are we taking cues from men like N. T. Wright, Brian Mclaren, Rob Bell - and a host of other not so Orthodox people? Why are we fishing in a poisoned pond? Is the Word of God our only and final authority for faith and life?
We can spend the next 10 or 20 years discussing all these alternative ways of "doing Church" and we will just be going in circles. We already have a Book that tells us how to do Church. We have a host of Godly men who know, from a Scriptural vantage point, what it takes to BE the Church of Jesus Christ. We can go on and trash all the ministries that we don't agree with and we'll never get to the real "business" of the local Church - Eph. 4:10-16; II Timothy 4:1-5.
And one more thing about another "re": The only "re" that will work is a Holy Ghost "Re-Vival" - and God will do it, not men and their clever marketing strategies.
For your consideration:
Thirsty Theologian
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