"Not many people like change, so of course there’s going to be resistance. But sooner or later the pain of being a shrinking, ignored community of faith within American culture will be greater than the pain of embracing the change necessary to get out there and engage missionally and generously with the unchurched."
This recent quote by Michael Frost, author of Exiles: Living Missionally in a Post-Christian Culture, in an interview with Fred Peatross, is right on!
When a car has been stripped of all of its' bells and whistles, what can it still do? It can still take you places. This is also true with the body of Christ. When we no longer can rely on our attractional models and programming, buildings, and big budgets, we can still journey with others toward Christ. There will be a day when the body of Christ in America will no longer be able to rely on anything else to get people in the door, rather it will be all about Christ. Wow! What will those changes look like? What will that look like for the little bitty Church of Christ in Howard, KS? How about lifechurch in Edmond, OK? What will this look like for Saddleback, Willow Creek, or The Potters House?
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