NextGenKent

A Reaction to John Drane's,  The McDonaldization of the Church:  Consumer Culture and the Church’s Future . 2001 (215 pages).                 “If our faith was to make a difference to our nation…we could not continue to do the same things as our forebears had done before us” so we need to “find new ways of being church”—the church needs to “reinvent itself'. “the spread of Western influence during the last five hundred years or so has had a profound impact on the way today’s world has developed”. The sociological “bending” culture has is something that hadn’t clicked for me like it had before. In other words, culture has a developmental impact on people—it trains people to be the way they are.                 So what are we to make of this developmental influence culture has on the people who are coming into the church? Is the church infected by it? I...