Good thoughts. I think part of the difficulty for progressive Christians is that we need to find new ways of being church that may not look like what "church" normally looks like. I personally believe that we will need to shift away from "worship services" being the central even toward small "spiritual growth groups". In fact, the person you mentioned who doesn't go to worship regularly but does go to yoga, seems like a good example of the shift that needs to happen. (I have wayyy too much to say about this, so I'll leave it at just that.)
So, in short, I think you are right that we have opened the door to walk away from the old, and I think we now need to devise something new to take its place.
Good thoughts, but I don't quite get footnote #8. The teeth-grinding part. It doesn't seem like a cause or an intensifier of the problems you're addressing. It could be used as an ex post facto rationalization for chasing faith-oriented folk out of church, in which case I guess I get it. Sort of.
Good thoughts. I think part of the difficulty for progressive Christians is that we need to find new ways of being church that may not look like what "church" normally looks like. I personally believe that we will need to shift away from "worship services" being the central even toward small "spiritual growth groups". In fact, the person you mentioned who doesn't go to worship regularly but does go to yoga, seems like a good example of the shift that needs to happen. (I have wayyy too much to say about this, so I'll leave it at just that.)
So, in short, I think you are right that we have opened the door to walk away from the old, and I think we now need to devise something new to take its place.
Good thoughts, but I don't quite get footnote #8. The teeth-grinding part. It doesn't seem like a cause or an intensifier of the problems you're addressing. It could be used as an ex post facto rationalization for chasing faith-oriented folk out of church, in which case I guess I get it. Sort of.
You're right. This was more about me "grinding my teeth" via words rather than grinding my teeth literally quite literally.
Thanks for your thoughts. Guess I’m going to have to read some Root. 🤷🏼♂️