Choose Your C September 21, 2011
Posted by Dan R. Dick in Church Leadership, Congregational Life, Core Values, The United Methodist Church, U.S. Culture.Tags: Christian Community, Church Leadership, Church membership, The United Methodist Church, Values
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I have been reading both Bruggemann and Block (The Word That Redescribes the World and Community/Abundant Community) and have been challenged in my thinking to a great degree about how we live together in healthy Christian community. Both books press a very simple, yet signficant distinction between two Cs: consumer and citizen. I am not generally a comfortable “either/or” thinker, but this distinction is as concise a characterization of the challenge facing mainline Methodism that I can think of — a dividing line that explains a lot about our fractured and under-functioning church.
