An article about how the threat to the institutional church can be helpfully illuminated by reference to Disruption Theory. The technology used to accomplish ministry inevitably changes. The church should neither be too quick to dismiss old ways of doing things nor too quick to enshrine them.
The Church Won’t Die (But Our Unhealthy Attachment to Institutions Must) | [D]mergent.
Author, Speaker, Pastor, Activist. Derek Penwell is senior pastor of Douglass Boulevard Christian Church, and a lecturer at the University of Louisville in Religious Studies and Comparative Humanities. His newest book, Outlandish, focuses on understanding the political nature of Jesus’ life as a model for forming communities of resistance capable of challenging oppression in the pursuit of peace and justice.
He is an activist and advocate on local, state, and national levels on issues of racial justice, LGBTQ fairness, interfaith engagement, and immigrant and refugee rights.
