Precarious Paths of a Postmodern Pilgrim
You grew up in a fairly boring suburb in a fairly boring town. As a child, you attended a fairly boring church.
In college, you became active in Campus Crusade and other Christian ministries... but in your heart, you know much of your motivation was social.
After graduating college, you moved to a larger town and began working. It wasn't long before you found yourself lonely, miserable, and desperate for family... something comfortable from the past. You found it in a local church. Everyone there seemed just like you: same economic background, same music tastes, like little Christian cookie-cutters!
...
And then it strikes you one day while grabbing coffee downtown: the people here, in the city, bustling by on their cell phones or begging for change on the park benches, have no place in your church. How would they? They don't fit...
In college, you became active in Campus Crusade and other Christian ministries... but in your heart, you know much of your motivation was social.
After graduating college, you moved to a larger town and began working. It wasn't long before you found yourself lonely, miserable, and desperate for family... something comfortable from the past. You found it in a local church. Everyone there seemed just like you: same economic background, same music tastes, like little Christian cookie-cutters!
...
And then it strikes you one day while grabbing coffee downtown: the people here, in the city, bustling by on their cell phones or begging for change on the park benches, have no place in your church. How would they? They don't fit...