
Many reports show the growing lack of interest in the traditional Christian church, but reports fail to point out to the new direction the Christian faith has been taking in the recent past decades. Christian church is rediscovering itself, reinventing itself, is emerging from the ashes of the old traditional way to a church movement that is more connected with our present.
Church is not happening in traditional temples anymore, church goers do not dress with a suit and a tie anymore, church music is not old those hymns anymore, a church service is not much of a sermon anymore, but an open conversation where everybody is engaged and participate.
Church does not do their potlucks in church dining rooms for church members anymore, but in public places shared with the poor and the needy. The church plant trees, takes care of the environment, or better said, God's creation, tries to reduce its carbon footprint. Is educated on current issues and does not participate in a consumerism that promotes slavery, child and sweatshop labor, unfair trade, low wages, unsustainable, products or those who are the result of animal cruelty, abuse and neglect.
The church has changed and it makes perfect sense today more than ever. The church today has re-read the Bible to discover that what it really ask us to do is to care for the poor and the needy, to be good Stewards of God's Creation, including compassion with the rest of the creation we share the planet with. The Bible tell us to go to the world and bring hope to those who need it and to keep taking care of this planet, which is for us, but not ours, until God intervenes to complete its ultimate restoration creating New Heavens and New Earth where there would be no more sorrow, or death, or disease, or injustice, or poverty, or global warming...
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