Reggie McNeal: "I’m talking about the church world in North America. A world that has largely forsaken its missional covenant with God to be a part of kingdom expansion. It has, instead, substituted its own charter of church as a clubhouse where religious people hang out with other people who think, dress, behave, vote, and believe like them."This is a great quote is from one of my favorite books - The Present Future by Reggie McNeal. I can't add much to it, but to say McNeal is spot on. This book has been around for about 5 years but it's still extremely relevant.
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I was just thinking this last night. We are a bunch of activity driven churches, you see this when a church gets to 250-300 people the next expansion is not to start another church but build a Gym so more activities can happen. We have put a 21st Century spin on the Mid-Evil Church buildings. Very extravagant and large buildings with no Bible teaching.
Great point. I hadn't though of it in those terms, but you're absolutely right.
Kingdom expansion isn't on the radar of most churches (unless they simply throw money at it). Empire building, maybe (which, to me, is what WMD described in his comment--great point).
In my experience, if a church isn't focused on kingdom expansion through church planting--and specifically church multiplication--it's really tough to "right the ship" down the road, because people tend to be so selfish.
You have a lot of ego kingdoms with guys building high dollar edifices as their "legacies" too.
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