A Book Review and Dust on my Laptop

I just finished reading They Like Jesus but not the Church by Dan Kimball (who I haven’t really liked since I saw him at the National Youth Workers Convention, however Bill had the book on his desk and I was avoiding doing other things, so…). I did like this book, not really earth shattering for me, but it’s nice to have someone else articulate the things I am feeling. Here are some of my thoughts mixed with Kimball’s:

• The Church has to draw us in and allow us to be something we can’t be on our own. Not something we simply attend to or passively absorb.


• Christ is the center of the Church (the head of the body if you will) both in dogma AND form. The worship should be an unapologetic gathering of Christians, Christ-followers, or Jesus people, whatever title you prefer. I can’t overemphasis form and means here; they matter tremendously both in the ‘end product’ they create and they culture they communicate.


• The goal isn’t to get non-Christians to “go to church”, but to participate in the life of the church as a community. Perhaps, we should consider coming worship gatherings as a later step. This means we shouldn’t be gearing the worship gatherings to non-Christians, if that is the only thing we do that we can invite people to participate in we are in trouble.
• The Church is Jesus! We need to read the gospels a lot more

On a lighter note, why does my laptop attract so much dust? I’m sure there is a simply explanation involving electric fields and magnetism… maybe wikipeda has an answer?