Why church websites are kinda’ lame…
Jun 4th, 2009 by ljkim
Including this one. Or especially this one… but that’s okay. How come? Because a church is not a business or something that you can communicate through a web thingy. Then how does God’s message get communicated if not thru a website? The primary way is NOT: through books (although we have a very important book), and not through sermons (although those can be important too), but rather through *people* living out the message…living out God’s economy.
This is ingenious because we really are (each) living stories, and living letters (testimonies) to a belief system. St. Paul said to the believers in Thessalonika, “you are our letters of recommendation.” You’re a letter to something or other…a living testimony to your core beliefs…And you can’t get that through computer screen.
Now some of these core beliefs that you (and I) have are wrong. Others are right. The purpose of a spiritual community is, you don’t need to live out all the wrong ideas in order to figure out the right ones. We can figure it out together…trying to live out God’s message, problem solving as we go.
Anyway, here’s what this means: you need to go and connect to a spiritual community, meet people, and read their stories. For some people this is the scariest thing you may ever do… To let down your shield, to put away your credentials and connect on a human level to other people who are seeking the same things you are: God, truth, meaning, answers. In a swords and sandals movie the adventure begins when the hero is brave enough to gear-up with weapons and shields and step into the unknown to seek a reward…in real life the adventure begins when you let down your shield and connect to other people in a spiritual community.
So this summer, why don’t you take that next step?
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