As I write this, I
am staying as a guest in the home of Jeff Petrillo and Beth Estock in
Portland, Oregon. Beth is a coach with Epicenter Group and a
collaborator with me, reflecting on the challenges of Christian
ministry in the twenty-first century. Beth and I are working together
this week, talking through the major ideas and movement of a book, to
be released in 2016. The book concerns the future of the church - what
will it look like by mid-century. Many prophets of doom remind us
(correctly) that the sky is falling. Beth and I agree with that
assessment, but we also have a strong sense of what is emerging!
Indeed we believe that the church has a very bright and wonderful future
- albeit a future that may seem weird by twentieth century
sensibilities.
