Have you ever stopped to ask, “How has what we think of as ‘church’ gotten to be so dry?" Let’s face it — even what is termed ‘innovative’ when comparing Church A to Church B, is all still destined to be as dry as a bone pretty shortly…unless God’s Spirit shows up in the midst of things. How have things gotten to this extreme of predictability and boredom? Those two words seem to be the clearest descriptors.

Somewhere along the way, the Church began to mistakenly think that it was up to people to produce life in order to see people changed, made whole, to be radically changed. That’s not to say no one was or is being changed along the way. Of course lots of people’s lives are being changed — all the time. But truth be told — lives are being changed more accurately in spite of the Church than because of the Church.