sick and tired

disclaimer: this post contains massive amounts of spiritual anger. not pointed at any one person, but the church of today as a whole. 

i am sick and i am tired of being looked down upon because i am young, in ministry. i'm sick of being looked down upon because my ideas aren't what that church or this church is doing. because my ideas aren't conventional or popular. they don't make people comfortable. or they seem impossible in the natural. how dare we stir up faith. i'm sick of those older than me not wanting to do things in unconventional, new, edgy, artsy ways. and wanting to stick to the basics of church, which might I so rashly add, have gotten us thus far, but are dry methods and will not get us any further. 

i'm sick of boring design, i'm sick of second-rate, same ol' ways of thinking when it comes to church. 

Let's be new kinds of Christians. And stop resisting change. 

Let's stop forming our ministries based on other people's because it's useless. 

Let's get rid of the organizations, and the groups that small churches join that are started by megachurches that "teach" their way of ministry. 

It's actually really uncreative and lazy. 

Let's obliterate these formulas we have created for "church" and incite something raw, like the gospel is. 

God is an artist, the least we can do is learn to be one too. Let's ditch the boring logos, the stupid slogans, the ridiculous mindsets about change in church and lets become artists. Let's create something new. Something raw. Not something produced and overused and cliche.

out.