Here is a link to Alan Roxburgh founder of Allelon vlogging on Rodney Starks book What Americans Really Believe.
The insights Roxburgh shares from the book reinforces the though I have ad for some time that we don’t need to go do 2.0 churches right now in America. Churches that bear not resemblance to the historic church. What we need are 1.5 church churches that link back to the future. An ancient future church (that Webber wrote about) that that re-imagines the church of today based on the church of yesterday including but not limited to the new testament church.
I am intrigued by Roxburgh’s comment about all the new Church gurus. I think these are the people who want to draw a line in the sand and do a new church that has no connection with what has come before. I think he is right is saying that these folks look at the world only through their (all too often elite) lens, usually white male academic. They ignore all the contributions of people outside they world view and experience have made to the church. They propose this new church based on their own cultural biases to the exclusion of all else. This is why I am post emergent. Stark research seems to bear this out.
Roxburgh ends by saying if we want to have a missional transformational church we will need to go to the center of where the culture is. I think we need to take a preliminary stil. Across the board we the church need to stop acting as if we are at the center of our culture and the universe. We are not. God is, it is God’s mission not ours. So as Roxburgh suggests we need to where God is and that is where the work of the Church is to be found.
Alan Roxburgh – Vlog #2 : The Missional Journey.
Tags: Alan Roxburgh, books, denominations, missional, Rodney Stark
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