Comments on: ★ Strategic Planning for Missional Churches :: Core Purpose http://www.patloughery.com/2006/02/03/strategic-planning-for-missional-churches-core-purpose/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=strategic-planning-for-missional-churches-core-purpose Pat Loughery's blog at the intersection of Christianity, culture and technology Tue, 22 May 2012 16:14:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Owen http://www.patloughery.com/2006/02/03/strategic-planning-for-missional-churches-core-purpose/#comment-304 Owen Tue, 02 May 2006 19:30:51 +0000 http://patlo.wordpress.com/2006/02/03/strategic-planning-for-missional-churches-core-purpose/#comment-304 Utterly revolting. What does business need to teach the church? Must we apply branding to the body of Christ? Have we totally lost the Church to a horde of third rate managers who are constantly behind the innovations in the secular world? Does not the Church transcend the culture? Why steal from a model that has been corrupted when the Church is without parallel in the mind of God? Christianity in America appears to have created a leisure class of pastors who reside in ivory towers; pastors who have nothing better to do than to create tripe. Isolated from real issues, we attempt to create purpose and direction in a vacuum. May I recommend that you simply throw yourself and your Church into the revealed Word of God? Fashioning a "new church" is not what God has called you to do. He has simply called us to allow the living Word to breathe and to transform lives. If we assume the role of architect, will not the structure be faulty? The original architect had incredible plans. Utterly revolting. What does business need to teach the church? Must we apply branding to the body of Christ? Have we totally lost the Church to a horde of third rate managers who are constantly behind the innovations in the secular world? Does not the Church transcend the culture? Why steal from a model that has been corrupted when the Church is without parallel in the mind of God?

Christianity in America appears to have created a leisure class of pastors who reside in ivory towers; pastors who have nothing better to do than to create tripe. Isolated from real issues, we attempt to create purpose and direction in a vacuum.

May I recommend that you simply throw yourself and your Church into the revealed Word of God? Fashioning a "new church" is not what God has called you to do. He has simply called us to allow the living Word to breathe and to transform lives.

If we assume the role of architect, will not the structure be faulty? The original architect had incredible plans.

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