{"id":15969,"date":"2011-11-09T19:35:11","date_gmt":"2011-11-09T19:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adrianwarnock.com\/?p=15969"},"modified":"2020-06-13T06:54:27","modified_gmt":"2020-06-13T05:54:27","slug":"should-the-church-be-led-by-teachers-and-scholars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/adrianwarnock\/2011\/11\/should-the-church-be-led-by-teachers-and-scholars\/","title":{"rendered":"Should the Church be Led by Teachers and Scholars?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

Donald Miller raises an interesting question in this blogpost:<\/p>\n

The church in America is led by scholars. Essentially, the church is a robust school system created around a framework of lectures and discussions and study. We assume this is the way its supposed to be because this is all we have ever known. I think the scholars have done a good job, but they\u2019ve also recreated the church in their own image. Churches are essentially schools. They look like schools with lecture halls, classrooms, cafeterias and each new church program is basically a teaching program.<\/p>\n

The first disciples were not teachers, they were fishermen, tax collectors and at least one was a Zealot. We don\u2019t know the occupation of the others, but Jesus did not charge educators with the great commission, he chose laborers. And those laborers took the gospel and created Christian communities that worked, that did things and met in homes and were active. They made speeches, for sure, but so do businessmen and politicians and leaders in any number of other professions. Educators make speeches and do little else, except study for their next lecture. I wonder what the first disciples would think if they could see our system of schools, our million lectures, our billion sub lectures, our curriculums and our lesson plans. I think they\u2019d be impressed, to be honest, but I also think they\u2019d recognize a downside.<\/p>\n

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