The Feudal System Lives On In Church Culture
A strange conversation can be heard in most church parking lots on most Sundays. It goes like this; “Did you get fed this week?”
“Yes I did, I loved what the pastor had to say.”
Or perhaps; “Did you get fed this week?”
“No not really, if it carries on like this we may have to go to another church.”
These startling expressions of dependence upon the pastor represent a deep malady in the American church. I call it Spiritual Feudalism because of the ‘peasant talk’ it uses and the ‘serf mentality’ it reveals.
Do you put your pastor in the role of a feudal lord?
Do you function with the a ‘serf mentality’?
Do you use ‘peasant talk’?