Oops! I Was Wrong

It's not often you hear a well known leader suggest that he or she may have been wrong. In a recently published article in Rev. magazine, Sally Morgenthaler suggests such a thing. Sally, as you know, published the influential book, Worship Evangelism, and suggested that worship could reach the unchurched. Following an extensive and painful evaluation of how worship-driven churches have been doing, Sally has had to admit it's just not working. Her candid review of what's happening in churches is a frank admission that we just are not missional. Pollsters for decades have suggested that church attendance hovers around 40% of the population in America. More thorough research suggests that if you actually count occupied seats on Sunday morning, church attendance is at an all-time low: 17.4% (down from 20.4% in 1990). Sally talks honestly about the churched and unchurched cultures and suggests that we should be paying much more attention to what the unchurched are saying about us. For example, rather than getting our britches in a bunch over movies like Saved, maybe we should be paying attention to what's being said about us. Sally's article is well worth reading. It's time we get dead serious about being truly missional... before we just get dead. Read her article at the following link: http://www.willowcreek.com/events/arts/2007/Morgenthaler.pdf