Many churches across the country are dwindling.  Very few are growing alongside the population percentages, and others aren’t reaching any adults at all.  The American church has started to rot.  We’ve started to decay.  We’ve become like a zombie, with no pulse, and our body is shutting down.

Zombies traditionally smell bad.  They rot and begin decomposing since they have no living tissues any more.  It’s kinda gross, but hang with me. Continue Reading…

If you ask anyone who is well versed in zombie lore one of the first core components of a zombie is that they are selfish.  They don’t work as a team, they don’t feel empathy for those they are eating, they are simply focused only on what they want.  As we continue discussing the danger of our churches beginning to turn into Churches of the Living Dead, I think this is an important lesson for us. Continue Reading…

People have used countless analogies to describe the church.  Augustine pointed out that the church was like a whore, but also his mother.  The Apostle Paul describes it like a body.  I’ve heard it described like a sports team (normally on a Super Bowl Sunday), a bridge, and a few other things.  Yet, the image that most rings true in my mind, is that the modern American church unfortunately looks like a bunch of zombies.  Yeah, the flesh eating monsters from the movies.  Let me explain. Continue Reading…