Saturday, 13 October 2007
Is that it?
A characteristically creative and catchy new advert for the Alpha Course — There’s a line in Fawlty Towers ‘That was your life. Do I get another? Sorry, mate...’ It 's a challenge to outsiders, but also a challenge to Christian insiders —
how much of a ‘factory’ is Church? Do we ever treat people like things, or standardize them, or homogenize them? if so, what are we doing to free the spirits involved — theirs, ours and God's?
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In my experience very much so. Think this, belileve that. It is little wonder that the Alpha crowd produceed such an advert. They may kid themselves that they are being all post-ironic but the last thing they want is people who can think for themselves.
Sounds like you had a bad experience of Alpha, which I realise some people do. Courses can seem like an invitation to a dialogue that doesn't actually happen in a mutual way. You've got me thinking about how mechanistic modern evangelism methods can feel for postmodern people — I'm fantasizing about a "Christian" sausage machine thing, where the final shift off the conveyor is to "post Evangelical"— interesting. Thanks for your comment.
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