Outside the economic realm it does not take much imagination to see McDonaldization in health care, education, and even in church. McDonaldization is evident in American appropriations of church growth principles. It is also apparent in the seeker and purpose driven types of churches, although many older churches have caught the bug as well. Some churches have literally sent their staffs to McDonalds University for training.
The transformation of secular space communicates that the earth is the Lord's and that material reality, the part we see, holds out the possibility of redemption."
The church franchized into reproducible commodified store fronts is hardly good f
or the church. But do we hear the wailing of the older generation bemoaning the loss of denominational identity? Or the suspicion over the loss of accountability between churches of similar doctrinal positions? Are these complaints legitimate? Sure. But how can we ever expect to develop continuity and accountability if all we have to offer is the stale toast of factory cut out ideas about church?hmmmm
I should mention this comes from the book EMERGING CHURCHES
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Cookie cutter church members are boring. What is the fragrance of Christ? Can we maybe take a personal look in ourselves to an authentic faith and see what actually is so amazing about Christ. With that sort of out look can we then allow for differences within the church and accept each other as human beings saved purely by the sweet grace freely given. Ahhh that is real and often unpredicatable when we seek truth in our faith and lives. Its true the Lord does work in mysterious ways when we don't synergize our ideas of faith and church to "one way". Even then God still works in His own ways but it may take us longer though to join Him. :)
I think i get what you're getting at. One of the things that bothers me about all this is that we have sort of bashed around creativity and squashed expression. For instance some people might find it hard to see skateboarding as a form of interacting with God. I don't mean that the skateboarder would have to do a trick that spelled out Jesus or was in the shape of a cross but just seeing the prowess of a good skater as a worshipful thing. Or how about travelling or snowmobiling or (Lord save us) GOLF!
"One of the things that bothers me about all this is that we have sort of bashed around creativity and squashed expression." You got it man! Also, what about meeting the needs of the people around us, have we stopped to find out what those are yet?
well ya roverT my feeling is that would be quite possibly the most important aspect of this type of exclusion.
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