Is this church? (long)
August 10, 2011 at 10:10 am | Posted in Christianity | Leave a commentTags: abominable, abortion, Abraham, abuse, airy, America, American, anathema, argument, articulate, assurance, ateasetees, attention, aunty, Awake My Soul, BAM, band, baptize, belief, Bible, Bill Gates, blessing, blood, Bob Dylan, body, Born Again, Brawny, breath, broken, brokenhearted, brutality, burial, campus, captive, card, cast vision, casual, changing, cheek, children, Chris Tomlin, Christian, church, circus, comfort, command, community, compromise, concert, condemn, confrontation, congregation, connect, consequence, content, context, conversation, conviction, correct, corrupt, cotton candy, counsel, creation, creature, cringe, cross, crowd, crucifixion, culture, darkness, death, defend, defile, deliverance, demon, desire, devestating, devil, direct, disciple, disease, disobedience, distress, doctrine, Donald Trump, doorpost, downhill, earth, Egypt, Emergent, emotional, empire, encourage, enmity, entertainment, eternal, evangelism, evangelize, event, evil, exhort, exile, Exodus, faith, fame, family, Father, favor, feelings, fight, flag, flowery, fool, foreign, forgiven, formality, fortune, fresh air, friend, fundamental, future, Galatians, generation, gift, global, glory, goats, God, God is Alive, good, good news, gospel, grace, growth, guide, harsh, head, heal, health, heart, heaven, hell, history, holy, Holy Spirit, homosexuality, hope, humanity, identity, incoulate, information, iron, irrelevant, Islam, Israel, Jesus, Jew, joke, journey, judgment, justification, kingdom, Lamb, laugh track, law, lemming, life, limb, list, living, logo, love, marriage, mercy, mess, message, mindset, ministry, Missouri, mistake, money, movement, murder, narrative, narrow minded, nation, need, needy, New Age, North Point Church, obedience, observe, offend, old man, old-fashioned, oppression, Our God, paper towel, pastor, Paul, peace, perfect, performance, Pharisee, pinch, plan, poor, power, prayer, preaching, priest, Promised Land, prophet, Psalm, pursue, reach out, ready, reality, reason, rebirth, rebuke, redeem, redemption, relationship, relevant, religious, remark, repent, replace, restore, resurrection, righteous, road map, Rob Bell, rock, Romans, salvation, sappy, saved, Savior, scripture, secular, seek, sermon, service, shadow, shallow, sharpen, sheep, shepherd, Shimano, sign, sin, Sinner, sitcom, slave, slick, soldier, son, sons, sound bite, speak, spiritual, Springfield, states, story, stream, suffer, sugary, syrupy, talk, ten commandments, theology, times, Todd Bentley, Tommy Sparger, traffic, train, transgression, tremble, truth, turn aside, typo, understand, ungrounded, universalism, unloving, uplifting, urgency, videos, wallow, wealth, website, wit, worship, wrath, writer, Zebco
While I don’t really care for Bob Dylan and don’t think that he could carry a tune in a bucket, I do have to agree with one thing he said. The times are definitely changing. Today’s culture is one that has been fed with 10 second sound bites, information at the tips of your fingers, and everything you could possibly want at any time you could want it. Problems are solved in 30 minute sitcoms with a laugh track and witty remarks. The attention span of the average human is now so short that if you don’t catch it and keep it within the first few seconds, it has already moved on to something more appealing or eye-catching. Everything is about entertainment and how it makes a person feel. It is a shallow, quickly moving stream that an inattentive person could easily get lost and drown in. It is in this time, this culture, and this mindset that the church of Christ finds itself. And it is here that the church finds itself changing. Continue Reading Is this church? (long)…
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