Thursday, June 26, 2003

Reading further at Future Margins, I found the post about how he would lead a deconstruct. This post was prior to the one I talked about below - it probably led him to post that one.

Anyway, he definitely has what many in the Christian church would consider radical ideas:

Just think of the barriers organized religion has created (not counting the fact that they’re non-biblical).

The distinction between layman (non-biblical) and professional paid staff (non-biblical)

Those two have turned participants into spectators and become a barrier for the Great Commission. The modern church (innocently, unknowingly and would never admit) has substituted “going” for “gathering.” I love worship but it’s not the entree…it’s no more than the by-product of the Christian’s life. The Great Commission is first and primary.