Will Samson has a thoughtful post on the emerging church movement and the industrial, institutional church model.
“Ironically, industrialization, fostered by a Protestant spirit of capitalism, is driving globalization across the globe, leading to an increased pluralization, both of cultural and religious expressions, in America. This could be leading the Church to a time of thoughtful consideration as to what it means to claim the name “Christian” when there exists such a wide array of religious and cultural choices.
Yet this is also the kind of thoughtful reflection we may not find from those most captive to the industrial model of Church that has dominated American Protestantism in the late 20th and early 21st Century. This may be due in part to the paradigmatic adherence required of one who earns income from a particular model. Or, the lack of reflection may be as innocent as the blindness that comes from spending so much time thinking about a structure or idea in one particular way…”
The entire post is worth checking out. Will always brings an interesting sociological perspective to his observations on the church.
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