Could this be the future of Church as we know it?

The Western church still puts a huge amount of effort into its central programmes, particularly the Sunday Worship Service. Yet the question needs to be asked why we do that. If our calling is to go and live out the good news, sharing our lives in our neighbourhoods building friendships, being community -  then why do we expect that in a post-Christian world, that bringing people to a big event in a building is the 'core' activity?

What does it mean to live as 'families' on mission? To be communities of disciples that connect deeply with the many who have a spiritual hunger but are deeply suspicious of 'religion.'

This is a cool video - the story of a worship leader who began asking deep questions ... 



Source:  http://www.thedesertbloomsproject.com

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Some time ago, a paragraph in newspaper caught my eye:

“Generation Y so connected, but oh so lonely: Survey. Theatre Director Bryce Ives came home from a wedding recently, and was amazed by how lonely he felt. "Oh my, those people were so happy and I was so furious and angsty, there by myself at 2am eating toast and having a beer," he says. At 27, Mr Ives is part of the most connected generation we've ever seen. ...” - Source

A national survey released recently by Relationships Australia suggests the under 30s may well be the loneliest generation of all - Source. According to the Relationships Indicators Survey 2011, 30 per cent of Australians aged 25 to 34 told the survey they were frequently lonely, significantly more than any other age group. The next most lonely were the young adults aged 18-24. Just under 20 per cent of them were frequently lonely. Interesting, in the light of the amount of time people spend ‘with' each other on-line in the internet age.