The New Church

What if instead of labeling ourselves as Christians doctrinally we labeled ourselves as those who love Jesus? Imagine a church based on the love of God and not whether or not you believe a certain doctrine. Imagine...you can be an active member if you have differing opinions on free will or predestination, homosexuality, abortion, etc. You get to worship right beside someone who strongly disagrees with you.

I hate to break it to you, but this is the only way our generation is going to work. We are not only dealing with a generation shift, we are dealing with a paradigm shift. We're talking a whole new way of thinking that is going on in the, say, 50 and younger crowd. We need modern churches for those who are modern, and postmodern churches for, let's say, everyone that is being born basically. But we have way too few.

I met a man at Solomon's Porch who said the reason he just started going there was because he believed differently than those around him, but he felt welcome. My heart lifted. That's the right spirit. I believe quite strongly in the need for discipleship and biblical and theological teaching, but in the end I believe that it is more important that we are brothers and sisters.

More will be coming on this thought I can tell you that.