Old church / new church
Most churches are run by and for nth-generation Christians, with the sort of church teaching and social life that they are accustomed to, and often in the style the leaders remember as an ideal from their youth.
Problem: what suits long-standing Christians doesn't do much to help enquirers and new believers to change from their positively non-Christian way of life. What should we do to help them?
Here are some comparisons of what we will, for shorthand, call 'old church' and 'new church'. They are meant to stimulate some thinking at the turn of the second Christian millennium.
