If we are to truly to believe that New Zealand is to be won to Jesus Christ we must be prepared to consider radical changes to what we are doing and how we are outworking our faith. I love the quote “If you continue to do what you’re doing, you will get what you’re getting”
As a minister of a church I have been very dismissive of congregation members who continually change churches or who drop out altogether. They have been labelled as people who will not accept authority, have ‘problems’ or who have lost their faith. As leaders in the church we have made sweeping judgements on these people who are struggling to connect with church or who have just opted out. However the large numbers of people who are in this position must challenge our presuppositions. Tens of thousands of committed Christians are opting out of the New Zealand church. Tony Collis states that in the Wellington region alone that there are approximately seven thousand Christians meeting in informal groups in halls, homes, marae's etc. Several years ago Bill Subritzeky stated that he believed that there were around twenty thousand Aucklanders drifting from church to church, surely they can not be all bitter negative people?:crazy: