Monday, September 24, 2007

Healthy Congregations

Peter Steinke's book of the same name makes me chuckle. Seems to me to be oxymoronic. I'm just not sure anymore that institutional religion in any form can ever be healthy again. Everything about the church is anachronistic--it's style, it's buildings, it's nomenclature, its theology, etc. No wonder spiritual people abandon the church. Perhaps the only way to meet Jesus--the real Jesus of history--is to leave the institution that has enslaved him for 2000 years.

FREE JESUS!