Scot McKnight quoted an author that stated something that sounds like it was written last week:
“Hostile to the church, friendly to Jesus Christ.” These words describe large numbers of people, especially young people, today. They are opposed to anything which savors of institutionalism. They detest the establishment and its entrenched privileges. And they reject the church — not without some justification — because they regard it as impossibly corrupted by such evils.
That sounds very 2005ish; but it's older. How old?
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Try 1958!
The author? John Stott, Basic Christianity.
But here's the questions I have:
1. Is the church impossibly corrupted?
2. Does the church deserve another chance?
3. If we abandon the institutional church, will the thing we create in it's place get institutionalized as well?
Hmm..
18 June 2007
Looking for answers again......an old problem
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Brian Ladd
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