Well on June 11th I read this article in my daily RSS reading.
'Baptist Churches Renaming Themselves to Avoid "Stigma"'
Now as the beginning of this article states, the source article from the Washington Post is a bit behind the times but the simple fact is that churches ARE changing their names due to some of their (personal and name related) history. Including my church!
But this has got me thinking, what's next? What happens when the 'Community Church' and 'Christian Church' moniker is just as messed up as the Baptist and Church of Christ moniker? What will we do then? How will we avoid getting in that place? Is that even possible?
Because the simple fact is, that its JUST a name. The church is more than a name. It is the people in it, and unless they are different then we will be in this same place when my children are becoming the leaders of a church.