Aug 5, 2008
When They Will Not Come
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David Fitch is a pastor, professor, author, and blogger. He works a lot with postmodernity, and missional ministry in the Chicago area. He has written a great post called When They Will Not Come, describing the reality of post-christian, non-attractional ministry.
This is an excellent post to read. Here is part of what he says…
Church in post-Christendom therefore is nothing less than a chosen way of life. It is choosing a way of being together. This way of being together encompasses how we worship, how we share and eat food, how we pool together resources to help the poor, how we get together and hear Scriptures read and teach our children how to listen for God in that. Forgiveness, patience, care, speaking truth in love, is part of this way of being together. In this way of living, career and making money is more about taking care of one another and giving glory to God than personal aspiration. And God inhabits this way of being so that miracles, blessings, sustaining times in life and death become a part of everyday life. Mission becomes our rhythm.
When those outside of Christ will not come to our church services no matter how professional they might be, when they will not come to our special out reach events, when they will not come for Sunday school for their kids, or movie night or whatever other crazy finagled way we dream up to get people into our church, then we must somehow rethink the orientation of just about everything we do in church. This would include worship, community and fellowship, discipleship, preaching (part of worship), children’s ministries, leadership, evangelism, justice and of course church-planting.
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