![]() ![]() Online video church and podcasts leave the impression that we don’t need other ordinary Christians for our spiritual growth. ![]() Loyalty lasts only so long as the church continues to meet your needs.Ĭonsider the role played by technology. Shopping also suggests that church is a matter of mere preference, like choosing between brands of ketchup. When you’re shopping for a church, you’re asking what that church can do for you, not what you can do for the church. ![]() Folks talk about “shopping” for a church. The very language people use today to describe looking for a church suggests the fundamental problem. If churches are to thrive during whatever unknowns the future holds, they must be rediscovered. The world cultivates instincts in all of us that push against the vision of church. The drift away from church didn’t start with a pandemic or with partisanship. That’s why we see this moment in history as an opportunity to rediscover church. You have many reasons not to go to church. ![]()
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