However, the conversation turned from sports, and weather, and grad studies to church. Two sharp young people, committed to Jesus, trained at a perfectly legit bible college ... questioning church. Granted, there's some cynicism, some hurt, some disappointment, some angst. But mostly their concerns, their issues, their reticence is based on seeing a few too many abuses of position, power, pulpits and personalities ... across the board ... by lay leaders, pastors, denominations, families, friends, you name it. Are they unique? Alone in this? I don't think so, unfortunately. Driving home up Cook Street I was trying to place them on Randy's unchurched>under churched>over churched continuum. Not sure if they fit, easily, on that one. Maybe they've 'de-churched' themselves? It has been months now, since one last act by a leadership team pushed them over the edge into pre-bitterness. They're not quite bitter yet, but our coffee today was an attempt to stave it off ... understand, maybe, from my perspective, how stuff like that happens? It wasn't exactly directly personal for them, but they watched it happen.
So my question is ... and has been all of 2007 ... "is what we do as the North American church what Jesus intended?" ... I'm not sure, at all. Wonder what He might envision as a faith community, in Canada, in 2008?
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