I am getting tired of watching newscasts go on infinitum about the crises we are facing in our country and blaming elected officials and educators and social psychiatrists (whoever those are) for all the woes of the culture. I say, hand a bunch of blame back on our churches who are too busy hiring staff members to do anything they can do to keep the money coming in so that we have a church on every block, deliberately not working together.
And who have they abdicated to? People who see what needs to be done although they have no background in theology but their movement is growing like mad. Like for one, Sandra Brossman. She has started a Holistic Health Service and her Facebook reports that she has provided spiritual coaching to hundreds of individuals. She features on mind, body, and spiritual healing. And her references: Education in Rosemont College where she received her holistic studies accreditation, and then at the Center for Human Integration Studies were she gained some certificates. But she has 266,270 followers, according to her site.
And she has a new book on the market! One of her fans FBed me to tell me how she had changed her life. I'm not knocking Sandra Brossman. She is making it big in her world, apparently. But I don't want her providing spiritual coaching to me or physical healing. I will stay with theologians and medical doctors.
My question is "Why are people like Sandra Brossman providing spiritual coaching to hundreds of individuals?" Her bio does not suggest that she has any tie with any church and her credentials are lacking in theology and medicine, in my mind. Why do we have a church on every corner, competing for congregational dollars? Have the churches in our time majored on the minor? Have the churches failed to be relevant to individuals, society, education, values-systems---all the things that are seemingly breaking down before our eyes---and allowing anyone with savvy to take over in their place?
Maybe it is time for congregations to become less interested in their keeping their congregation intact and more about grabbing hold of what needs to be done outside the four walls of the physical church.
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