Engage: Part Two

Churches in the suburbs buy into the honor code as well. Whole staff meetings are focused around how to make people comfortable. We discuss parking issues, easy access points, and how not to be too offensive. We stand up and say we are going to go to downtown Atlanta to visit a homeless shelter on Monday night but we can come home to our comfortable beds instead of saying we need two families who will move to downtown and live among the homeless for a year. We create sports programs that pull kids out of public sports with unchurched kids because they need to be in a “Christian environment.” We do the same with school choice. We send our kids to private “Christian” schools where they don’t have to be salt and light in a dark world. They can just hang out among other salty kids. Why do we go to extreme measures? Because we are following the honor code: everything is fine and my life is in order – We are comfortable.