Never Ever Go To Church Again

I was blessed to be invited to present a workshop at this year’s Praise Covenant Interdenominational Fellowship Conference in late June. They gave me the freedom to create my own workshop and I decided to begin crystalizing some of my thoughts and readings on the church today. What came out was a workshop entitled, “Never Ever Go To Church Again.” I can’t say that any of the information that I shared was revelatory; (most of it can be found somewhere within the genre of “emerging church” literature/media), but experiences that I’ve had over these past few years in particular in addition to authors that I have been exposed to have really helped me to articulate what I’ve been feeling since graduating from seminary.

It was truly a transformative experience for me and hopefully for the other participants as well. What made it particularly interesting was that the participants were comprised of church leaders for the most part and at different points they would share perspective that made clear that they were being burdened by the weight of “corporatized ministry” – that might be a crude term, but by it I’m only pointing to some of the components of institutionalized church.

Enjoy this clip of the workshop and I’d be interested in hearing your thoughts on the dialogue.