Really and Actually Reformissional... Yes!

So, I've finally gotten around to ordering Alan Hirsch's "The Forgotten Ways" and have started reading it. I can't put it down!

Alan, Brother! So wonderful to read your book! It's a huge encouragement to me as it confirms so many things God has been depositing into my heart the past five years, and the book is bringing these things into greater clarity and understanding. What a gift to the body of Christ Alan is! (Consequently, this book has made me realize that I really must finish reading Don Slater's "Consumer Culture and Modernity".)

Regarding the statistics, Hirsch says:

"In fact, the church is on the decline right across the Western world, and we have had at least forty years of church-growth principles and practice. We can't seem to make disciples based on a consumerist approach to the faith (tweaking the "ministry mix" to try to attract people). We plainly cannot consume our way into discipleship. All of us must become much more active in the equation of becoming lifelong followers of Jesus. Consumption is detrimental to discipleship."

I say, Jesus is not a product, but a King. We didn't sign up for the kingdom of God to consume spiritual services, but to give our very lives in yielded obedience to the King.