Friday, February 18, 2011

Programs instead of the Kingdom

From Michael Spencer's Mere Churchianity:

For millions of Christians, the great failure of the church is its failure to be a resource for producing and encouraging the life of discipleship. Instead of discipleship, the church has taught a life of rule keeping, with the rules set not by Jesus but by religion and traditions. Long ago the church replaced the Kingdom of God with church activities and priorities.

(Mere Churchianity, pg. 101)

2 comments:

Tim A said...

Crowd oriented - expert driven - one-way communication activities rather than intimate, mutual, one another oriented activities.
Spectator kingdom vs reproducing kingdom

Jeremy Myers said...

So true...and so sad. But I see hopeful signs of this reversing.