“The church is precisely that against which Jesus preached- and against which he taught his disciples to fight” (Friedrich Nietzche)
Over the next few weeks I am going to submit a series of short blogs that explore some of the fundamental problems of the institutionalized church as I saw them as an employee of the church. The topics will be broad and will attempt to avoid criticism that relate to specific issues that may or may not be present a given church (such as 50 year old pastors who look like they do all their shopping at Structures for Men). After that I would like to begin writing over the theological issues that are shaping my faith, but because I would like to develop them to some extent I am going to stick with something that comes pretty easy to me: saying what is wrong with what shaped my old spiritual identity. Just kidding. These criticisms are not intended to be an indictment of the institution, simple a concise description of how I see the institution flawed. It is so important to move from just leaving something to embracing something new, but there is value in identifying what you are leaving so that you can know what you need to embrace. I will put a little bit of time working on these entries, but for the most part these were written back when I was still working in the church and were saved on my computer. From the time that I originally wrote them I have matured my beliefs about them and will edit that when possible, but these were my feelings as a person who worked in the church and for the church. The topics will be:
· Institutional Maintenance
· Modern Trappings
· Irrelevant Doctrine
· Inability to Change
· Extrinsic Values
· Sacred and Secular Gap
In the meantime enjoy the video below.
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