A couple of decades ago, Bob Dylan announced his faith conversion with an album that famously and artistically declared, “You’ve got to serve somebody.” Dylan realized there was going to be an authority in his — and everyone’s — life. That’s something that fewer and fewer people believe.
Consider the current talk about the emergent church (or emerging conversation, or any one of now a half-dozen labels being used to describe various thinkers, writers, and leaders). Some earnest scholars have tried to figure out how emergent thinkers “fit into” Christianity as we know it, and most admit that the emergent movement itself is splintering into any number of its own factions, proving that while they may not be Presbyterian or Baptist in doctrine, they certainly are in practice. It won’t be long until we see “Reformed Second Mosaic Church of Christ,” or “First United Mars Hill Assembly of Ohio, 2015 Convention.”
At root — the root that really matters — is the issue of authority. It comes down, in a very simplistic sense, to this: Who’s going to be your boss?
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