Talk to them plainly about love, and joy, and forgiveness, and death, and peace, and God, and they’ll be all ears. People don’t need to be dazzled with big, churchy words and about eschatological frameworks and theological systems. There’s a message there worth sharing, but it’s hard to hear above your verbal pyrotechnics. They need you to speak in a language that they can understand. This spiritualized insider-language may give you some comfort in an outside world that is changing, but that stuff’s just lazy religious shorthand, and it keeps regular people at a distance. All the religious buzzwords that used to work 20 years ago no longer do. Until you can give us something more than a Christian-themed performance piece-something that allows us space and breath and conversation and relationship-many of us are going to sleep in and stay away.Ĭhurch, you talk and talk and talk, but you do so using a dead language. You’re holding onto dusty words that have no resonance in people’s ears, not realizing that just saying those words louder isn’t the answer.
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