Saturday, August 14, 2004

Asking the right question

In sociology classes I was taught to question the institutions around me. What I am beginning to learn is that there is an art to asking the right questions. The right question can actually somewhat obscured sometimes. I think that The Dying Church has posted some interesting ones:

Wrong question: How do we do church better?
Right question: How do we deconvert from Churchianity to Christianity?

Wrong question: How do we grow the church?
Right question: How do we transform our community (hit the streets with the Gospel)?

Wrong question: How do we turn members into ministers?
Right question: How do we turn members into missionaries?

Wrong question: How do we develop church members?
Right question: How do we develop followers of Jesus?

Wrong question: How do we plan for the future?
Right question: How do we prepare for the future?

Wrong question: How do we develop leaders for church work?
Right question: How do we develop leaders for the Christian movement?

The Dying Church seems to be working to an underlying theme: your church and its health are not as important as God's kingdom.

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