Disenchanted: Is the Romance Over for the Bride of Christ - Brian Swedburg - Friday Night Lecture - 13th June

"We want to be the church for people who don’t like church.” This is just one way I have heard it said lately. In the same way people still want romantic or sexual relationships, but don’t want to have anything to do with marriage… perhaps similar to the way a person decides that ‘The me that I am does not belong in this female body, but belongs in a male body’… and certainly in keeping with our newest generation’s newest definitions of 'family' as ‘emphatically not my family of origin but my people,’ it seems that being a part of a church today that is in any sense associated with traditional concepts of “church” is not only undesirable, but culturally immoral! Let’s talk about our disenchantment with “church” and explore a path to restoration for the Bride of Christ.   Click for Slides   Brian Swedburg is currently enjoying family and grandkids as much as possible, while teaching music at a classical Christian academy. His undergraduate degree is in music education and his masters is in exegetical theology. So, you won't be surprised that he has spent the last 30 years pastoring, church-planting, discipling, leading worship, and teaching music in various capacities. Brian and his wife Julie first came to the Rochester L'Abri in 2016, and have returned as often as possible. He is running in preparation for a 50 k this summer, reading all that he can, and growing up by the grace of Christ with his church, family, and friends.