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"If the church is going to thrive..."

Written by Calvin Fox

Friday, 16 October 2009 12:32

"In the late 1990s, younger leaders began to question the pragmatism of the earlier generation. These leaders have been increasingly influential in the church since 2000. They are more concerned about authenticity than excellence, recognizing that churches need to be loving, vulnerable communities if they are going to draw a skeptical generation toward faith. For them, leadership needs to stem more from cooperation and trust than from individual competency or measurable effectiveness. These values have made the Traditional leaders nervous that the Younger focus too much on belonging and not enough on believing. And the Pragmatic leaders are concerned that Younger leaders are not as committed to quantitative growth as they are to qualitative growth."

"I am convinced that if the church is going to thrive in this emerging culture, then we who are more traditional and pragmatic need to willingly and gradually hand over the leadership of the church to the younger generation."

Talk about being pragmatic. The big assumption here is "if the church is going to thrive then...' Is this statement true? And what will a thriving church look like. Will it be the one that Jesus said He would build? We don't want to be like Esau and sell our heritage for a mess of socially acceptable pottage (Gen.25:29-34) For the entire article from which this excerpt comes see here

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