For the past 10 years, I have been involved in the education and training of pastors over the years, a problem is recurring in conversations with my colleagues: we have a church in crisis, sometimes I have the feeling that the problem is our expectation. . When we wait for paradise on earth, the expectations we live here are not enough for us, but on other occasions I feel that we actually have a real problem: constant wars over liturgical issues, people fleeing service posts like angry youth, apathetic, the absence of children, the emptying of meetings and things like that cannot be normal.
In times of crisis proposals for solutions multiply and, talking to those same colleagues, I had contact with many, however, there is something that has always bothered me in most of them: they usually present a long list of things to do. without offering a thorough discussion about why we should do things. And it seems to me that the key to solving many of our problems is right there: in the dimension of fundamentals. Of course; Just why it’s also a problem; and, running away from one, we can’t fall into the other. We were called to do things and not just understand things, but it is that what we do is directly related to the way we understand things, so liturgical problems can only be solved if we have a clear understanding of what public worship and worship is, just as the problems associated with ecclesiastical education cannot be solved without a clear understanding of what Christian education is.
- For this reason.
- I have a suspicion: INTENTIONALITY must be among the key virtues for church leaders today.
- And “WHY” should be one of their main questions.
- Why do we do it this way.
- Why are we going to start doing it differently?Now.
- In the morning.
- Reading an article by Dr.
- Charles Melchert.
- I found a quote that seems to show that I am not traveling; or.
- If I am.
- At least I’m not alone.
- She says: “If we do not know clearly what it is or what we are looking for in the process.
- The best we can hope for is to achieve our goal I suggest that our people and our God have the right to expect more from us than that.