More from Miller
Relevant Magazine online has an interesting interview with Don Miller (thanks Dusty). Here's an excerpt that resonates with the feelings of many of us in Coram Deo as we try to plant a church that engages the culture. Miller is talking about walking away from his role as a college leader at a megachurch in Houston, and how his faith was being stunted in that context:
Let me preface all this by saying that I love church, I love my church, that it's a wonderful community, and I'm very faithful to it. I think the idea of church or the Church around the globe is certainly imparting God's presence in the world. That said, I have not grown personally in terms of faith with the kind of consumer-oriented Christianity that is prevalent in America. That has never helped me; it's only stunted my growth. What I mean by that is the self-help, formulaic kind of stuff; the moralist/political angles on our faith tradition. None of that helped me. I didn't grow. And really what happened was there was a switch that turned where I got interested in the more relational dynamic of faith, the whole notion of God fathering us rather than focusing on the rules or whatever.
See, the pressure to be a certain kind of person in the context of the church culture I was living in was intense. When the pressure was taken off and I was surrounded by people who would describe themselves as pagans, there was suddenly no pressure for me to perform or be like anything. They didn't care, and that allowed my faith to grow for real.
Read more at http://www.relevantmagazine.com/god_article.php?id=6995
(Lane, how about some props? The posts are flying this week!)
Let me preface all this by saying that I love church, I love my church, that it's a wonderful community, and I'm very faithful to it. I think the idea of church or the Church around the globe is certainly imparting God's presence in the world. That said, I have not grown personally in terms of faith with the kind of consumer-oriented Christianity that is prevalent in America. That has never helped me; it's only stunted my growth. What I mean by that is the self-help, formulaic kind of stuff; the moralist/political angles on our faith tradition. None of that helped me. I didn't grow. And really what happened was there was a switch that turned where I got interested in the more relational dynamic of faith, the whole notion of God fathering us rather than focusing on the rules or whatever.
See, the pressure to be a certain kind of person in the context of the church culture I was living in was intense. When the pressure was taken off and I was surrounded by people who would describe themselves as pagans, there was suddenly no pressure for me to perform or be like anything. They didn't care, and that allowed my faith to grow for real.
Read more at http://www.relevantmagazine.com/god_article.php?id=6995
(Lane, how about some props? The posts are flying this week!)
posted by Bob | 8:38 AM
2 Comments:
dude, I love it... like Christmas in October. I actually have been pondering a comment or two this morning, and a slow afternoon means I'll have a chance to get em out.
Perhaps Arabic has one letter in its alphabet where we have two. It would be very egocentric to think that their culture doesn't know how to spell it. We are obviously the ignorant ones.
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