Churches Who Duel, part 2
Oct 14
If you’re going to be a church who duels the world, you actually need to be a church who duels the church world. Because all too often, churches reflect the values of society rather than standing out as a light to society. As a youth pastor, I have found that much of youth ministry out there is about combating the worldly culture. Yet, if the teenager’s parents and the teenager’s church don’t “duel the world,” usually very little will be accomplished. I think it’s a better approach to try to change the culture of one’s church, and to invest in the parents’ lives/spirituality (which will change the culture of the church). In addition, I also believe there’s validity to challenging students to moving beyond the spirituality they see in their church and in their home. There is a risk that you will get people in your church (as well as parents of youth) upset, but in the end, isn’t the mission of maturing and development of young adults into sincere followers of Christ more important than some church-goer getting their feathers rustled?
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Here’s a thought I had today.
Would you / your friends / your pastor be willing to watch 1/3 of the people who go to your church leave if you knew that it was required for your church to be a truly awesome church. Alternately, you could keep the church people together and the church would be basically the same as it is now. (You don’t get to pick who that 1/3 is :))
Would you do it?
Okay, I guess this one answers my previous question. I pretty much fully agree with you. I will say that there are situations where not ruffling the church-goer’s feathers is preferable, though. 🙂
Drew, “pretty much fully agree” with me, eh? LOL!
And Joel, although I’ve never been in the position of a pastor to make such a decision, I am “pretty much fully confident” that I would choose losing the 1/3 of the people.
There’s ALWAYS an exceptional situation that will keep me from fully agreeing. 🙂
Practically speaking, losing the 1/3rd who give the most tithes and offerings would pretty much fully concern most pastors. 🙂