http://saltypeanutgallery.com/2008/05/27/missional-street-cred/ unsolicited commentary flavored with wit from a decidedly Christian world view Tue, 25 Oct 2011 01:31:42 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 http://saltypeanutgallery.com/2008/05/27/missional-street-cred/comment-page-1/#comment-216 Byron Thu, 29 May 2008 18:11:40 +0000 http://saltypeanutgallery.com/?p=137#comment-216 Thanks for alerting me to Michael's excellent piece. Actually, in recent years, we've had some smaller-church pastors speaking at our national conference; that represents a (very welcome!) change, though. We allow our American infatuation with numbers to influence our Christian faith to such an unhealthy degree. Look at the annual list of "America's largest" or "America's fastest-growing" churches, and you'll find a compendium of everything from the faithful to the heretical to all shades in-between. Sometimes, faithfulness to Jesus will bring in greater numbers of people; sometimes, faithfulness to Jesus will cost us some people. But I, for one, am pretty sick-and-tired of this plastic evangelicalism that puts a statistical measurement on everything as though we can gauge things by nickels and noses. Thanks for alerting me to Michael’s excellent piece. Actually, in recent years, we’ve had some smaller-church pastors speaking at our national conference; that represents a (very welcome!) change, though. We allow our American infatuation with numbers to influence our Christian faith to such an unhealthy degree. Look at the annual list of “America’s largest” or “America’s fastest-growing” churches, and you’ll find a compendium of everything from the faithful to the heretical to all shades in-between. Sometimes, faithfulness to Jesus will bring in greater numbers of people; sometimes, faithfulness to Jesus will cost us some people. But I, for one, am pretty sick-and-tired of this plastic evangelicalism that puts a statistical measurement on everything as though we can gauge things by nickels and noses.

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