The Rise of the ‘Umms’

Second, the congregation must be busy in its message, helping busy people find the resources they need to get more fullness out of their busyness.

Often the deadness we face in congregational life is due to a loss of the centrality of transformation. (To lose transformation is to lose a concrete vision for the efficacy of divine action.)

The problem of secular 3 isn’t that fewer people are going to our congregations but rather that many people feel alienated. Inside that alienation, divine action becomes opaque.

Sunday morning has become in far too many settings the occasion for a pep talk rather than provocation;