Clark Cowden Quotes Eddie Gibbs on The State of Christendom
Over at The Outbox, Clark Cowden give a brief synopsis of Eddie Gibbs’ latest book, Church Morph. Those of you familiar with Gibbs will already know what this book says, but for those who don’t, here’s a choice snippet of Clark’s excellent summary:
Part of our changing context is that most younger adults are abandoning program-driven churches in search of a more authentic spirituality. Since most of our churches are program-driven, we have to begin to quickly learn a whole new paradigm of doing ministry.
I take a bit of heat now and then from a few folks for being too “negative” about prevalent church paradigms – which is fine, I wouldn’t be writing my thoughts publicly if that bothered me – but what those folks don’t typically realize is that the wheels are coming off in every tradition and denomination in America. If you’re a church-goer, and happen to like your church, you might not realize this. But if you’re in any kind of ministry leadership you are likely acutely aware of the claims of crisis being made by folks like Eddie Gibbs, and you either agree wholeheartedly and are busy critiquing the old models in order to discern a way forward, or you deny it and are busy defending the old models in order to protect the current paradigm.
What makes Clark’s engagement with this book significant is that he’s the Executive Presbyter for the San Diego area Presbyterian Church USA. People much smarter than me in every corner of Christendom are working to address these issues, and that makes me very hopeful.
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Thanks for giving Clark props. He deserves it. Love the new design!