This week in class (I know, I’m doing it again, it’s inevitable, y’all) our topic is ecclesiology, that is, the doctrine of the church. One of the benefits of having miraculously landed this adjunct gig is getting to read these texts assigned in the syllabus (which is not my syllabus, I adopted the sabbaticalizing prof’s syllabus wholesale)–another benefit is getting together regularly with a bunch of spectacular and smart people willing to sit around for a couple hours on Tuesday nights to discuss these things…but I digress.
So, one of our authors this week summed up his book’s entire thesis with these three statements:
The church is.
The church does what it is.
The church organizes what it does.
As CCfB struggles with the question of how to organize ourselves, it helps to remember that what we’re talking about is simply how to be who we are, and do what we are, in a more effective way.
