Una citazione da Hybels
Scritto da Mark Van Steenwyk: 2 aprile 2005
Ho letto appena questo dentro un'intervista su Christianity oggi. La fattura Hybels dice:
Willow Creek ha cominciato nell'era in cui, come il libro
celebre, la gente di chiesa-sviluppo stava dicendo, “nonne dissipi c'è ne di
le vostre edizioni della corsa di combattimento di energie. Fuoco tutto sul evangelism. “Esso
era il principio omogeneo dell'unità di sviluppo della chiesa. E mi ricordo di As
pensare giovane del pastor, Quello è allineare. Non ho saputo se I
ha desiderato chance l'alienazione della gente che era cercatori, di cui il eternity era
sulla linea e chi potrebbe venire soltanto alla chiesa una volta. Ho desiderato a
tolga altretanti ostacoli come possibili, tranne la traversa, aiutare
fuoco della gente sul gospel.Così ora, 30 anni più successivamente, mentre ho letto questo libro [unito da Faith], I
riconosca che una Comunità biblically di funzionamento allineare deve includere
essendo multiethnic. Il mio cuore batte oggi così velocemente per quella visione. I
meraviglia a come Na? ve e pragmatico ero di 30 anni fa.
La mia prima reazione è “dio di elogio!„ È buono da vedere uno di più grandi fautori dello scarto homongenous di principio dell'unità il principio. La mia seconda reazione è una di consternation. Ottengo grumpy con il numero di gente che conosco chi configurazione qualcosa il senso facile… che prende il percorso verso successo più rapido ed allora prova successiva per diventare onesto. È come il dieter che usa le pillole e lo slimfast per perdere il peso ed allora prova a mangiare dopo sano quello. Regola un modello horrible per il resto della chiesa, quando la gente ha bisogno di come iniziare una chiesa multiethnic in un senso sano. The thing is, WIllow Creek, by exercise of might and is really moving towards multiethnicity…and they’ll probably write books about it and tell everyone else how to do it (and I guarantee they will). The problem is, the example and experiences they’ll be offering will be mostly worthless.
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Ooh, great quote!
Guarantee, they’ll be running conferences on multi-ethinic churches within 2 years.
Well… yes, we will get everything Willow Creek foisted on us, maybe including a new “how to be multi-ethnic” workbook, but good for Hybels for having the guts to admit a mistake. There are probably plenty of others not yet willing to say something like that.
Interesting quote and great analysis. I always get frustrated with people who have made it one way and then say from their mighty position: it should all have been done different. If they would have done different, maybe they won’t be talking to me. So, thanks for the post.
Mark,
I think you’re being a little harsh in saying “The problem is, the example and experiences they’ll be offering will be mostly worthless.” Even if you were using hyperbole. For better or worse, they ’set the standard’ that massive numbers of people in Evangelicalism look up to. I’m nervous about giving that much “power” to one small group, but at least Hybels and others are willing to publically repent of erroneous thought.
Missio Dei didn’t get everything perfect in the beginning. We’re still learning and growing so we should allow others to do so as well.
I guess I wasn’t clear enough. My point is that their experiences will be worthless because no one else can mirror their process. In other words, the way they arrive at at multiethnicity will be fundamentally unduplicateable. I am glad they are moving in the right direction. Where they come from doesn’t destroy the good they can do now. However, it is difficult to take them seriously as a guide in this area, since they made the change after amassing great resources and clout, and they made the change in such a way that only mega-churches can duplicate their process.
So, my statement of their example being worthless is in regards to their contribution to church systems implementation, not in regards to their example being one worthy of emulation.
Very cool to hear Hybels saying this. I’ll be the first to admit that I don’t have the multi-ethnic thing figured out, and I agree that the way Willow Creek does it will be different than will work for us, but it’s nice to hear him say it.
“the example and experiences they’ll be offering will be mostly worthless” - wow, dude, that’s perhaps the most arrogant thing I have read today.
I wonder if one of the reasons people think that the emerging church is nothing more than a group of men pissed off about the failures of evangelicalism and the church growth movement is because sometimes that is all we are. One of the lessons I am constantly having to learn is that I have no idea where God is at work. That I am part of work of God in this age, but perhaps not the only part.
Will, please read my clarification. By the way, I don’t consider myself emergent. I am pretty dang evangelical.