I'd love to have some dialogue on the new piece by Real Live Preacher: "If We Could Do Church." As most of us do from time to time, RLP is asking the question...
What if we could do church any way that wewanted?
I don't think he is talking about doing what we want vs what God wants. He says...
What if these people decided to cast off any preconceived, cultural ideas about what church ought to be and instead tried to whittle Christianity down to its essentials? Instead of allowing church to become ever more complex, what if they sought to make church ever more simple, simple enough to be written on a thumbnail or even on a heart?
I know that we can't talk about this without some of us reading to find what he says that we don't like and then shout it down as quick as we can. But I want to talk about the heart of what he says rather than the theology he has behind a certain point or a practice we don't agree with. Read it and tell me what you think?