Inefficient and Inconvenient Community

Posted by chuck maxwell on August 9th, 2010 filed in Chuck's blog

In a CT article this month titled “To Serve is to Suffer”, Ajith Fernando writes,
“The contemporary emphasis on efficiency and measurable results makes frustration even harder to endure. In the past four centuries, industrial and technological development in the West made efficiency and productivity top values. With rapid economic development, things once considered luxuries became not only necessities but also rights in the minds even of Christians. In this environment, the Christian idea of commitment has taken a battering.
We call our churches and Christian organizations “families,” but families are very inefficient organizations. In a healthy family, everything stops when a member has big needs. We are often not willing to extend this commitment to Christian body life.”
John 15:12-13 is Jesus model of biblical community. How does it compare with ours?


One Response to “Inefficient and Inconvenient Community”

  1. Dave Hanna Says:
    September 15th, 2010 at 6:46 pm

    Chuck, do you really want to HEAR the answer to that question? There is almost no resemblance between Jesus’ model of biblical community and the vast majority of churches. Too much organization, programming, scheduling all the stuff that comes along with the “emphasis on efficiency and measurable results” culture. We need a bit of deconstructionism I think.

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