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By Thomas G. Bandy
Whereas mainline denominations have traditionally relied on teens who sign up for seminary for his or her management, overdue bloomers and second-career varieties are more and more relocating at once into ministry, then picking out up education as they move alongside. Bandy examines the fad, giving clever information. 176 pages, softcover. Abingdon.
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The former church leaves behind a trail of burned-out laity who have done their duty and feel sadly empty inside. The latter church multiples motivated laity who are fulfilling themselves and having a whale of a good time. The former church has a five-year strategic plan and no volunteers to implement it. The latter church has no idea what the mission agenda will be next year, but an enormous volunteer pool charging off in all directions. Something similar is happening with the deployment of clergy.
Rubbish! That's Christianity talking! What Christ says is that he can turn water into wine whenever he chooses. He can heal whomever he wishes, and organize in any way that works, and use former tax collectors and illiterate fisherman to hand out God's food and drink. When I used the word “addiction” to refer to Christianity in my former post, I meant that literally. Christianity is like a prescription drug. Prescribed and taken in proper doses, and with a “grain of salt,” it enhances the health of the Christian pilgrim.
Once the pre-existent Word became flesh, the potential for finitude to be raised to the status of ultimate concern became even more tempting than ever before. In the same way, once the experience of Christ becomes “enfleshed” by Christianity, the temptation to elevate Christianity to the status of ultimate concern becomes even more tempting to Christian leaders than ever before. Christ is to Christianity as the meaning of a sentence is to the syntax of a sentence, or as the import of a symbol is to the symbol itself.