Friday, May 1, 2015

The Near Future of the Church


The cultural trends and current trajectory for the local church that will endure, strongly indicates that it's participants will only get smaller, but more core-committed; less programmatic but more relationally organic; minimally corporate but more familial; intentionally counter-cultural ideologically and missiological; priestly and prophetic; theologically conservative and orthodox in it's praxis; teaches and lives Christ as Savior and Lord, as well as Prophet, Priest and King; exists peacefully with the tension of Truth and Love, Justice and Grace; is apolitical but socio-politically astute in regard to worldview; led by pastors who can seamlessly live Life and Faith among their people; and finally: is lovingly submissive enough to sacrifice "the blood of her martyrs as the seed of the Church" (Tertullian) - in order to be a more perfect Bride of Christ...

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