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Monday, July 05, 2021

3 Signs Your Church Is in a Bubble (and 3 Tips for Popping It)


Michael Horton recently noted, “Our churches right now look like Fox and CNN. You can tell when you walk into a Fox church and a CNN church. The ideology, not the gospel, is the priority.”

It’s a worrying and saddening trend, Horton observes, that many churches have become enclosed by contemporary partisan bubbles. Our true calling is to be a community that transcends these divisions: “no longer strangers and aliens . . . but fellow citizens” in Christ (Eph. 2:19).

The thing about bubbles is that you rarely realize you’re living in one. A bubble is translucent, giving you a sense of being in touch with reality when, in truth, your perception is more skewed than you think. Read More

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