The Business of the Church业务教会

My friend Gregg passed a我的朋友格雷格通过了 link链接 on to me yesterday about applying business principles to the church.就以我昨天申请的商业原则，以教会。 Just when I was thinking that the church-as-business model was starting to phase out,只是，当我以为教会- -商业模式已开始逐步淘汰， BusinessWeek商业周刊 pays homage.  Someone once told me that the zenith of any model is right before its death…for example, the best buggies were made as a response to the new-fangled horseless buggy.  I’m not so sure.  As long as the heart and soul of America is consumerism and capitalism, then there will be consumerist/Christian synchretism.表示敬意。有人曾经对我说，天顶的任何模型是正确的之前，其死亡…举例来说，最好的手推车发了言作为回应新fangled horseless小车，我不是那么肯定。只要心脏和灵魂，是美国的消费主义和资本主义，然后会有消费/基督教synchretism 。

I don’t challenge the motive and the hearts of those who blend Christianity and business models.  What I do challenge is the naivete that is so pervasive…the odd cluelessness that stems from the assumption that the medium can be seperated from the message.  I wonder why those who adopt business models seem to be too unreflective of the brand of Christianity that they’ve ushered in.  I’m not saying that they’re stupid…just a bit blind to the ways in which culture shapes their churches, and the deleterious effect their approach to church has had on Christianity as a whole.我不挑战的动机和心中的那些谁共混基督教和商业模式是什么，我的挑战是naivete是这样的无孔不入…奇数cluelessness认为，源于假设，即中等可以分开，从信息，我难怪那些谁采取的商业模式似乎过于unreflective的品牌，基督教，他们已经迎来英寸我不是说他们很愚蠢的…只是有点视而不见的方式，其中的文化形态，他们的教堂，和有害的影响，他们的做法，教会已对基督教作为一个整体。

Usually when I say things like this, a passerby who stumbles upon my blog by doing a search on "business models" AND "businessweek" will come to the defense of the church-as-business approach and say I’m being elitist  or mean or jealous, etc.  To you, my critic, I give the right to disagree.  However, lets be honest…the megachurch is the highest expression of the union between religion and American culture.通常，当我说的东西，这样，一行人谁stumbles后，我的博客做的一项搜寻关于“商业模式”和“商业周刊”会来的防卫教会作为企业的做法和说我被精英或等于或嫉妒，等你，我的影评人，我有权不同意，不过，让诚实…该megachurch ，这是最高的表达该联盟之间的宗教和美国文化。 It reinforces family values, good financial practices, and brings people into a relationship with Jesus Christ.  But it doesn’t produce the sort of radical disciples mentioned in Scripture.  And it tends to support a number of values Jesus expressly challenged.  A person could do a whole lot worse than to go to a business-church.  But they most certainly could do a whole lot better.  And instead of trying to corral our seeker friends into an unoffensive, stylish, successful megachurch, we should read the bold statements of Christ on the nature of following him, and take his lead.它强化了家庭价值观，良好的金融做法，使人民成为一个关系与耶稣基督的，但它并不会产生那种激进的弟子中提到的经文，并且倾向于支持一些价值观，耶稣明确挑战。一个人可以做了很多不如去一个有利营商的教会，但他们最当然可以做整体好多了。而不是试图围栏我们的导引头的朋友到一unoffensive ，时尚，成功megachurch ，我们应该阅读的大胆声明对基督的性质，追随他，和他的带头作用。

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