sort of where i'm at...

I’ve been lead farther and farther away from the institutional church and a modern train of thought. Choosing instead to embrace the “post-modern” (for me the term has come to mean the systematic questioning of everything currently in my realm of thought and the amalgamation of all prior ideas into a personal Christian world view that fits somewhat within the cultural paradigm, yet without abandoning any tenants of my faith) consciousness and forms of “grassroots” Christ-following.

The biggest problems I’ve run into lately are three-fold:
1) What is the Biblical model of church?
2) How is the current version of church a diversion from that original example?
3) What is good as well as bad about this church evolution?

With only spotty answers, only more questions come to mind. The line between how much the Bible forms the church and how much the culture structures the church remains a blurry line as well. The context of our lives are much different (yet remarkably the same, too) as the first century church. So I guess the basic question is: how much has the world changed and how much do we transform our ecclesiology?

Something to keep in mind. As we look at the time from Jude to Revelation, we make up a small portion of the narrative that navigates between those two vastly different takes on Christianity. So, where are we on the way to making the “City of Jerusalem” a holy city? Maybe, rather than looking to the past for help, we look to the plan for the future. We allow John’s vision to shape our vision. The plan of how we get there is up to our proper care and understanding of God’s Word. But it is also up to his birthing of imagination in our souls to be on the lookout for new and innovative ways to share the Gospel and reach the world.