Category: General Reflections
(A couple of rants I've been storing up:)
It appears that Bill Hybels has recently learned that three decades of Willow Creek-ness have left his congregation spiritually immature, desiring to be fed solid food, and wanting to be challenged in their thinking. And all of God's people said...Duh! You can hear him admit this in his own words here.
However, I think the solution he proposes is as far from the mark as the seeker-sensitive model that got him there in the first place. Encouraging the people to read the Bible more, pray more, serve more, etc., is all good, but the underlying principal he recommends is that they should become "self-feeding." Let me get this straight, Mr. Hybels, you believe that the role of a shepherd is to make the sheep's pasture as inviting as possible to the goats, to try to get as many goats into the pasture as possible, and then tell the sheep that the reason they are weak, feeble, sickly, and hungry is because you haven't taught them how to feed themselves? Where did I get the mistaken impression that shepherds were actually supposed to take care of sheep?
And here's an example of what happens when someone doesn't believe the truthfulness of truth. (And I'm not talking about the atheist.) Bill O'Reilly, I suggest you stick to yelling at Democrats and leave the debate about Jesus to someone who actually believes the gospel.