Hybelsからの引用
MarkヴァンSteenwyk著書かれている: 2005年4月2日
私はちょうどこれを読取った 今日キリスト教のインタビュー. ビルHybelsは言う:
ウィロークリークは本として時代に、始まった
注目される、教会成長の人々は言っていた、「の散らしてはいけない
競争を戦うあなたのエネルギーは出る。 焦点福音の伝道のすべて。「それ
教会成長の同質な単位の原則はあった。 そして私はように覚えている
若い牧師の考えること、 それは本当である. 私はかどうかI知らなかった
賭けてみたいと思い永遠があった、シーカーだった人々を遠ざける
ライン、1回来るかもしれないかだれが教会にだけおよび。 私はほしかった
助ける、十字以外できるだけ多くの障害を、取り除きなさい
人々は福音に焦点を合わせる。私がこの本を[Faithが結合する]読んだと同時にそう今、後で30年、I
本当の聖書に作用のコミュニティが含まなければならないことを確認しなさい
multiethnicある。 今日その視野のための私の心拍そう速く。 I
驚嘆いかにのnaか。veおよび実用的私は前に30年だった。
私の最初反作用はである「賞賛神!」 homongenous単位の主義の棄却物の最も大きい支持者の1人に会えたことはうれしい主義。 私の第2反作用は驚きの1つである。 私は正直にかなるためにだれ造り何か速い成功の方の道を取る簡単な方法…およびそれからより遅い試みを私が知っている人数と気難しくなる。 それは重量を失うのに丸薬およびslimfastを使用し、健康それを後食べることを試みるダイエット者のようである。 それは健康な方法でmultiethnic教会を始める方法を人々が必要とするとき、教会の残りのための恐ろしいモデルを置く。 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.
for further reading . . .
- None Found
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.