Don Sweeting compares the criteria which were used to define a healthy church in times past: Acts 2:42; the Nicene Creed; the Reformation with some of the search parameters which people use today: music; coffee; number of people who are just like me, and wonders if contemporary ‘church shoppers’ might not be able to refine their search lists by listening to those who have preceded them.
Church shopping.
I hate the phrase.
It sounds so….consumeristic!
But at one point in our lives, most of us do it. Even pastors do it before they are pastors. If they have a break from pastoral ministry and move, or retire, they do it again. So guess what we’ve been doing this year in the wake of a move and a job change? That’s right……church shopping. What should you look for in a church? Here’s what most of the “church shoppers” I’ve t … Read More
via The Chief End of Man
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