Communications, Congregations, Connecting, Equipping
April 11, 2014 inLast night (April 10) the Philadelphia Seminary’s “Exploring Series” hosted a program with New England Synod Bishop Jim Hazelwood conversing with four “Nones” with no church affiliation. Some quick observations about what “Nones” had to say:
Bishop Hazelwood (center) engages with four “smart people who don’t go to church” to understand the barriers between “Nones” and the church.
In his summary, Bishop Hazelwood urged church leaders to accept that the church is no longer in a central, privileged position in culture, and start joining God outside the walls rather than trying to invite people in to church.
Churches that survive will adopt a culture of experimentation, he said. That means they will accept that many experiments will fail and try anyway. — Bob Fisher