We don’t need more doctrinal precision and
biblical knowledge, more conferences and programs. We don’t need more
cookie-cutter youth groups copied from the megachurch down the street. We don’t
want to hear another worship song with the same beat, the same tempo, the same
words, and the same three chords as every other worship song.
Christianity suffers from the pandemic disease of
just copying each other in what we do, what we say, and how we look. As the
world struggles with the ethical dilemmas of whether or not we should allow
clones, Christianity should just be shrugging our shoulders; We’ve been making
clones for hundreds of years, from the way our buildings look to the way our
people look. Sure, there are “cooler” versions out there, but they still gather
at the same old places at the same old times to do the same old things for the
same old purposes. When are we going to break out of the mold and do
something that shocks, surprises, and amazes?
Let me back up and start from the beginning. The
very beginning.
