The Body of Christ: Body Preservation

Thank you James T. and Ben G. for allowing me to completely rip off your class ideas and post them here!!! Sunday morning's class and Ben's Wednesday night's class seem to coincide with each other very well. Here are my thoughts based on two fantastic presentations. (Give credit where credit is due!)

In this post-modern culture, the question has to be asked by our congregations, "Why don't they like church? Why are the numbers dropping? How do we maintain the church? How do we reach them? Are we relevant, if not, how do we become that again?" How? Why? James T. put it this way, "How do you protect, maintain, and uphold the body of Christ?"

Now, I am going to stop you right here. Let there be NO suspense. I'm pretty sure I don't know how to answer any of the questions above. There, have I lowered your expectations a little? Good, let's continue.

I consider myself a modernist living in a post-modern world. Like it or not, post-modern is where we are at. Truth is easy to come by, because you stretch it. Faith is easy to come by, because you feel it. Goodness is easy to come by, because you dictate it. Happiness is easy to come by, because you steal it. Love is easy to come by, because you see it. God is easy to come by, because you sat in it's shade (or hugged it.) Sound familiar? Do you know some folks that fit this description? I bet you do.

I think we have been asking ourselves these questions for awhile. These questions are in the back of my mind quit often, how do we do it then? That is the question I want to leave on the table. I have some thoughts, but for now I would like to know yours? What do you got?