Dear Church


..ideas for shaping a more diverse, authentic, and transformation-centered church.

Author Sarah Cunningham goes beyond outlining 20-somethings dissillusionment with the established institutional church and offers ideas for moving beyond the dissillusionment - taking the message to those who aren't walking in the doors of the steeple bearing buildings.

A noteable except - 'We don't want to feel like we worship on an American Idol set.'
...'You know what gets our attention? Pure real-life humans in front of us and have them tell us about their real lives.'

Boy that flies in the face of buying more and more subwoofers, bigger screens, and fancy video backgrounds behind song lyrics. Interesting...

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