Some interesting thoughts by Frank Viola. He’s referring to why he left the institutional church some yeas ago. I can’t say I agree with him completely, but it’s an interesting perspective: “To my mind, Sunday morning “church” was little more than attending a show. You clocked in, watched the show, clocked out, and then lived your individual Christian life. It was the same song, different verse, could get better, but it’s gonna get . . . the same. Or to quote Robert Plant, “the song remains the same” . . . for the last 500 years.” Source: TheOOZE.com

Lifechurch.tv’s Bobby Gruenewald wonders (out loud, even) if the church couldn’t stand to learn a few lessons from Google: “I would never use Google if it required me to leave my house and travel to an unfamiliar building on Sunday only once a week…listen to 30 minutes of unrecognizable music, followed by a person talking for 30-40 minutes, and still possibly have to try to find a person who looked “official” just to find “results” for my search. That would be absurd! But, that is a substantially abbreviated version of what so many churches put people through who are searching.”