Honest question, why are we diagnosing the stress of this model when the model itself isn’t the biblical center of gravity?
In the NT, the ekklesia isn’t an audience and the pastor isn’t the product. Shepherds serve and equip the saints so the whole body grows up together. When “church” becomes a weekly monologue that must outperform last week, you’ve already drifted into a stage-and-consumer system.
So yes, stop measuring a man by “last Sunday.” But the deeper repentance is stopping the setup that makes last Sunday the scoreboard at all.
If you have a chance to read some of my first articles, they’re all about the system itself. The modern Americanized model is deeply flawed, and I call it out.
Honest question, why are we diagnosing the stress of this model when the model itself isn’t the biblical center of gravity?
In the NT, the ekklesia isn’t an audience and the pastor isn’t the product. Shepherds serve and equip the saints so the whole body grows up together. When “church” becomes a weekly monologue that must outperform last week, you’ve already drifted into a stage-and-consumer system.
So yes, stop measuring a man by “last Sunday.” But the deeper repentance is stopping the setup that makes last Sunday the scoreboard at all.
IMO
If you have a chance to read some of my first articles, they’re all about the system itself. The modern Americanized model is deeply flawed, and I call it out.
Beautifully written but sadly so very very true as I used to pastor a church too💃🙏😇💕
Thank you for this.
Thank you for reading. I'm praying God keeps blessing your book and congratulations for writing and finishing one!
Thank you!!
Pastors were never meant to carry the loads they do. In my own way, in my little corner of the world, I’m trying to change that.