I went back to have a loolk at the website of the bloke I quoted earlier and came across this article containing these words:
So “I call.” Are you discontented with the church today? Do you have complaints a mile long about how things are done wrong? Do you yearn for a new kind of church? Then, “I call.” Show ’em or fold ’em. Put your life on the table and go start one of these “new kind of churches for new kinds of Christians.” I dare you. Put your life where your vision is. Vision is cheap-what costs is putting your life on the line to make a vision happen. Do it! If you really want to see change then walk away from your boomer-supported dole in the traditional church that you despise and go out and get a job at Starbucks…® and start one of these new kinds of churches. Build it up so that you can be supported by it. If there really are so many people in the world hungering for this new kind of church-go reach them and disciple them and get them to support this new kind of church-maybe even you’ll be able to quit your Starbucks…® job and go full time. Do it! I challenge you! You could!
This is exactly what was done by hundreds of boomers before you. They disliked their parents way of “doing church” and so they went out and rented movie theaters or schools and built up a churches from scratch. You may not like the churches they made but you’ve got to respect their guts don’t you. Do you have this kind of guts? Do you believe in your own vision this much? You seem so sure about what’s wrong with the traditional church and you seem so sure of what sort of “new kind of church” we ought to be. Why not bet on your hand? Why not go and plant this new kind of church? As long as you keep your cards in your hand you can’t win” go ahead and bet your life and lay ’em down. Let’s see what you got.
“I call.”
You going to play ’em or fold?
I have no idea who he is, but he’s not far wrong here.
A lot of people complain that EMC is just people pontificating. Words are always cheap but action is evidence of our convictions and learning occurs as we take action.
Seems there are two options:
1. Shut up about what’s ‘wrong with the church’
2. Go and do something about what’s wrong with it
Option 3 which = bitch and moan but do nothing is no option at all.
Rant over