One of my great joys is engaging in conversation with leaders & groups seeking to discover the church that is emerging after Christendom. So many followers of the Jesus way can feel the many ways that our times are changing. The external pressures often reveal the cracks in our respective tradition’s polity, approach to Sculpture, doctrinal formulations, liturgical practices, formational postures, leadership expectations, missional telos, and even their sense of why they even exist. Things don’t seem to work anymore.
As a person, you have to navigate your sense of meaning and belonging in ministry trying to find a way to make sense of your role in your neighborhood, with your local congregation, your tradition, and sometimes even Christianity as a whole . . . maybe “faith” of any kind, or even your understanding of God. You are not alone!
You are part of a growing movement of leaders who are following Jesus boldly into the “church” emerging after Christendom.
Part of how I understand my “big why” for living in this world is to serve Christ by serving Christ’s church in all its forms. I all of my work I am seeking after a ever large imagination for God’s shalom. Evidence is mounting that the fracturing of the Christendom church as we have known may in fact be signs of the birthing of something new.
I believe that disillusionment, frustration, even some of the pain experienced at the hands of the ecclesial systems, statements of belief or practice and the like, maybe an invitation to something more.
Please, you’re feeling alone, lost, or excluded, reach out to a trusted friend… and I’m here.
Peace, dwight
