Comments on: To Be A Revolution, Yeah http://www.da-man.com/blog/2006/06/04/to-be-a-revolution-yeah/ The Guys In Mute Math Rock Thu, 08 Jan 2009 12:31:54 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Jack http://www.da-man.com/blog/2006/06/04/to-be-a-revolution-yeah/comment-page-1/#comment-3898 Jack Mon, 12 Jun 2006 03:59:03 +0000 http://www.da-man.com/blog/2006/06/04/to-be-a-revolution-yeah/#comment-3898 While I didn't read the book, I did listen to the (abridged) audio book on (ugh) tape. The basic ideas really blew me away. I saw a book at Sam's today that was about companies not realizing they're no longer in control, that the customer is the CEO (not the king), and companies should be busting their humps to court the customer, partner with them, etc. One of the biggest thoughts on this was how applicable to the church these ideas are. The evangelical church has become a propoganda machine. No interest is shown to people except as far as being a potential convert, a person to "win", another notch in the Bible. The lost person's ideas are irrelevant, as are wants, desires, dreams. If instead, we approach them as, say, people, engage them as a fellow human being in each others' lives, and drop the agenda off at the altar, perhaps we the church will stop offending people unnecessarily. (Yes, the gospel offends, but that doesn't mean we should be offensive about it.) While I didn’t read the book, I did listen to the (abridged) audio book on (ugh) tape. The basic ideas really blew me away. I saw a book at Sam’s today that was about companies not realizing they’re no longer in control, that the customer is the CEO (not the king), and companies should be busting their humps to court the customer, partner with them, etc.

One of the biggest thoughts on this was how applicable to the church these ideas are. The evangelical church has become a propoganda machine. No interest is shown to people except as far as being a potential convert, a person to “win”, another notch in the Bible. The lost person’s ideas are irrelevant, as are wants, desires, dreams. If instead, we approach them as, say, people, engage them as a fellow human being in each others’ lives, and drop the agenda off at the altar, perhaps we the church will stop offending people unnecessarily. (Yes, the gospel offends, but that doesn’t mean we should be offensive about it.)

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