“The modern Church is badly broken.
It’s not broken simply because it is filled with flawed, failing human beings. That is certainly true but this has always been the case, and yet the Church has not always been as dysfunctional and neutered of influence and culturally ineffective as it is now.
One of the reasons the modern Christian Church is becoming obsolete and irrelevant to so many people (and why they are opting out in exponentially increasing numbers) is that for decades it’s been built backwards—and they’re all realizing it.
Having been a pastor in the local church for 18 years I’ve seen thousands of new church start-ups or “church plants” spring up along the way, and far too many of them are variations on the same faulty theme.
The template and sequence for birthing these Christian faith communities is shockingly similar:”
These foregoing words are from John Pavlovitz’s blog post entitled, ‘The Church Needs To Be Rebuilt Backwards.’ He has a remarkably clear way of putting to words what many of us are thinking, and tends to be a bit sacrilegious & satirical in the process. I would encourage you to read the entirety of this post at
http://johnpavlovitz.com/2015/10/26/the-church-needs-to-be-rebuilt-backwards/
