This is not the Easter episode you expected, but it may be the episode that you need to hear.
Here we are again at Jesus's annual coming-out party and the American church is still clueless as to why Easter should matter. It's not a Sunday morning extravaganza or the Super Bowl of Christianity. It's also isn't merely another High Holy Day on the liturgical calendar either. Christianity has gone through the motions for so long that we forgot what we were doing. The clergy and leadership may have not noticed this, but the congregants have.
Gallup polls indicate that church attendance is down below 50% in America, the first time in 8 decades. Some will blame this trend on the pandemic, but many congregants have merely used COVID as an excuse to leave and not come back.
This Easter let us be honest. The church is fucked.Harsh? Maybe, but its decline shouldn't be blamed on culture as Christianity tends to do. The blame lays squarely on church leadership for losing the plot and forgetting why the church should exist.
Easter is a reminder of what we're called to return to. Easter calls us to a higher ethic of living drenched in service, sacrifice, and love. Jesus's death at the hand of political and religious oppressors is a wake-up call to the church that it has, in many ways, become the oppressor.
Join me today as I take wisdom from Jesus, Moses, and Lil Nas X to discuss a potential path of reconciliation for the church and its original mission.How does it all fit together? How can we unfuck the church? Listen to find out.
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