I was browsing through various web pages looking at the news when I came across this opinion piece on the NY Times homepage. The title of the op-ed was "Congregations Gone Wild" (http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/08/opinion/08macdonald.html?_r=1&hp). The NY Times does not give a whole lot of attention to matters of the church so my curiosity was piqued. I chose to ignore the provocative inference in the title and see what the writer was talking about.
The first sentence is "THE American clergy is suffering from burnout, several new studies show." Now I was really interested!
The article goes on to talk about the challenges of reaching an America that is more and more skeptical toward faith. That sounds about right. What's more, Pastor's are apparently burning out trying to keep up with the latest fads in communications and technology in order to entertain their congregations. That also sounds about right.
We need to get back to the basics. Our churches need to be focused on glorifying God and discipling believers. The key is God honoring and Bible focused. There's nothing wrong with doing things with excellence, but the packaging is far less important than the content.
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