BUSINESS CHURCH OR CHURCH BUSINESS

Lately i realized that i have become much more thrilled by business than by church these days.

Honestly there is not much talk about church, evangelism, church planting or emerging church that really excites me. While the dream lives on, it sort of feels like emotionally i have started giving up on the existing Christian community (incl. myself) to ever turn into a vibrant kingdom movement.

What keeps exciting me, however, is good business. Good business as characterized first of all by excellency (without which you cannot sell in the long-term), by trustworthiness (without which you do not sell a second time) and by innovativeness, i.e. a culture of learning, radical questioning, and collaboration (whithout which you do not sell even a first time).

Only two of these essentials have i ever found in the church context, with the mission context being better, but still v-e-r-y  s-l-o-w  as compared to where the people do not vote weekly by their feet but daily by their money.

I wonder whether the heavenly oiko-despotes would not also be interested talking (his) business rather than church  business?!