Read Jim & Casper Go to Church. It's a rare opportunity to gain spiritual wisdom from an atheist - someone on the outside who isn't afraid to tell us all the crazy things we're doing.
I don't agree with all of Jim & Casper's observations. But if I only read books where I agreed with everything that was said, then I might as well not read books at all.
I agree with their main point, though: Jesus didn't come to this earth, live, die, and rise again so that we could have awesome urbanministry.org/churches-0" class="" title="Church Resources">church services. He came to reconcile us to God, and He has committed to us the ministry of reconciliation. So let's get out there and get involved. The urbanministry.org/churches-0" class="" title="Church Resources">church service should be the fueling station for believers in their lives of service, not the rock concert that makes outsiders wish they could be as cool or as saved as we are.
Casper (the friendly atheist) had one profound question which could transform our lives if we let it: "Is this really what Jesus told you guys to do?"
He is absolutely right that, though Christians often "do urbanministry.org/churches-0" class="" title="Church Resources">church" in similar ways, we are all over the map in regard to how we live out our faith. Sometimes it seems like our worship is not an expression of true faith, but a substitute for it, a pleasant routine.
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