Comments on: Justice and Mercy #14 – Brant Hansen

By: Chris L

Chris L — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 17:21:32 +0000

Welcome, John

Just to put some context around Christian’s question – Tim is a schoolmate of his, and his question to Tim, I read, to be asking how Tim, as the pastor of a church, would go about leading them differently in light of his discussion with Brant.

I thought it was a very refreshing discussion…

By: John

John — Fri, 09 Nov 2007 15:48:55 +0000

Hi All,

I am in community with Brant in Jupiter. I wanted to respond to “Christian’s” post. I think the difference is one of perspective. It’s the difference of going to church or being the Church. If someone with no Christian experience at all, they’ve never been to church, never heard the Gospel, and had no access to Christians somehow found a Bible, read it and decided to follow Christ, what would that person do? I suggest he or she would would start to learn to love their neighbor as him/her self.

Do the work of Christ. Be a Christian.

-John

By: Christian

Christian — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 21:17:52 +0000

So how would a church like your’s live this out Tim?

By: Church Voices » Blog Archive » The Death of the Megachurch

Church Voices » Blog Archive » The Death of the Megachurch — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 13:51:28 +0000

[...] After talking to Brant Hansen on this podcast I’ve been doing some thinking about the state of the church in America, and though there may be big churches the death of the megachurch will occur. Or at least the typical structure of them as exemplified by the typical baby boomer megachurch (in this case I’m not defining megachurch simply as greater than 1,000 members). Essentially these churches are a top-down model heavily influenced by the structure of corporations. That means there’s a lot of passiveness on the part of members and lots of leading on the part of paid staff. Paid staff set up programs that are attended by members. Members sit down and are taught at. The shape and structure of the church is wholly decided and enacted from the top. [...]