The Church in 2034: This is an awesome article filled with thought-provoking implications. A lot of this stuff is frightening, some of it encouraging.
The Church in 2034
– June 23, 2009
The Church in 2034: This is an awesome article filled with thought-provoking implications. A lot of this stuff is frightening, some of it encouraging.
About the Author
Richard Clark (Co-Founder/Editor-in-Chief) has spent his entire life writing, reading, listening, and playing. He has a Bachelors in Theology from the Baptist College of Florida and has a Master of Arts in Theology and the Arts from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. He lives in Louisville, KY where he is the classroom technology manager at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. In addition to writing at Christ and Pop Culture, he is also a staff writer for Kill Screen Magazine's website and has written for various other outlets such as Paste, Gamasutra, and Collide.
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Wait, I thought the church didn’t survive past 2012 and the first term of Obama’s apocalyptic presidency?
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Oh good point. Dang. Back to the drawing board.
There’s 2 major flaws with predictions like this.
The first is unpredictable. A ‘climatic event’. This is a defining event in history which changes the rules. Could be political, could be geographical or cultural – but it ensures that perceptions and way of life changes until the next historical event.
The second is overestimating progress and human nature. This prediction typically doesn’t take into account how people usually react to new technology – how they tend to misuse it. It doesn’t take into account how culture shifts and how something that is popular today will be the reject of tomorrow. What about human pride that continues to drive many ministry positions? There a few churches I’ve known of that make smart choices about technology or evangelism sadly.
It also forgets that the part of following Christ is in serving – whats to say that pastors will spurn androids and encourage their congregations to serve traditionally?
Why do we assume that churches will continue in exponential growth? – and by this I mean congregations. Why do we assume that there won’t be a backlash to megachurches when megachurch pastors realise that God and Mammon are not mutual. Or when they realise that the world does not need more self-absorbing entertainment and services, but it needs humility and Jesus.
It’s seems to be written by a social media/tech fanboy and doesn’t seem thought through enough to me.
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But Alex: Androids!!
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