All the statistics look bad for the North American Church. Everything from church numbers are down to moral and spiritual decay is up. The American church has more money, resources, and theologians and yet things continue to go from bad to worse. The issues are complex and legion but few seem to question how theology is done in the church today. Professional academic scholars call the shots and yet the church is moving even faster in a downward spiral.
I remember many years ago reading Soren Kierkegaard who said in his day that metaphorically speaking, we need to "kill (all) the commentators." Why? Because they are killing the church! More recently, David Bercot has gotten in on the action, an Anabaptist who says we have shifted from Godly fruit to orthodox theology as the test of Christian faithfulness. Is this what Scripture describes? Have we not moved from Jesus words of "Follow me" to now what theologians and seminaries promote, "study me?"
Here is a sample quote for us to consider from David Bercot:
"The people whom the world looks up to as brilliant generally have been the ones who have had the hardest time grasping the simple truths that Jesus and his disciples taught."
(Will the Theologians Please Sit Down, p.48)
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