The De-churched Regular

I just read this great post on Yaz's blog about the de-churched. It's long, but well worth the effort.

I totally endorse all that Yaz writes in her post, especially her comments about the mainstream church's ignorance of the 'dechurched' and obsession with the 'unchurched'... and the whole thing got me thinking what am I? On paper I'm "the regular", in fact i should get double points coz i'm there every week, twice normally and that's just on a Sunday. But then I thought about it and actually no, i don't think i am the regular anymore.

Despite my faithful attendance in body, my mind and soul are unashamedly becoming increasingly dechurched. You see i might be there, but that's more out of habit than desire and so, to the authors of mission shaped church, i call for a sixth category "The Dechurched Regular", who goes week in week out but really is pretty tired of the whole thing and hopes to find a righteous way out soon...

Comments

[Daniel]

Yeah, I felt that way(like I was a de-churched regular) when we used to go to church. But I have to tell you, at least for me, it's been a very enlightening experience to really not go anymore. It feels like years of brainwashing is wearing off.

[Ben]

Great thoughts from you, Yaz and Naomi.

I often have that feeling too.
I guess that's why I'm so keen to see new ways etc, so that we can start to make a change, so others don't have to go through feeling the same way.

but sometimes I wonder if that is possible at all. and it scares me sometimes that my energy and enthusiasm for change might be be a contributing factor to people leaving.

man, we need God to help us.