The Middle Class Church

Alan Hirsch (pastor & teacher) offers some profound challenges for the church in North America.

His general assessment is that the average church in America is thoroughly middle class. This includes the general demographic, but so much more than that, it also means the church has come to share the general values and behaviors of middle class America.

And in many ways, Hirsch says, you can summarize those values with these words:
Safety
Security
Comfort
Convenience

While these values are totally understandable, and not wrong in and of themselves, when they come to define and shape the church, perhaps we've missed something. It's frankly impossible to read the words of Jesus in the Bible and conclude that the above values are the values of the Kingdom of God.

Hirsch offers this assessment: the pursuit of safety and security will be the death of the church.

Here's the full interview:Alan Hirsch on Community

What do you think?