Can't Believe I Did This...

I actually signed up for an "IndieAllies" mailing list. I'm normally one who is extremely skeptical of media-marketing ideas, which this IndieAllies thing totally sounds like. A gathering of the new illuminati -- the latte-sipping pomposity of those who re-arrange the deckchairs on the Titanic and really think they're doing something new and creative because they mock mega-churches and don't see that they're acting in exactly the same way, except now THEY'RE in charge.

I knew it wouldn't take long before the pomo crowd developed it's own version of "WWJD" merchandise, marketing, conferences (with big honorariums for the new guru's), thus sealing their own fate of using the exact same models and motives as the very churches they sneer at. From there, it's a quick coast into irrelevance and the busyness of going to pomo gatherings, and not having any time left over to do the things they accuse the "institutional" church of not doing.

See? REALLY skeptical. Even downright cynical. Maybe it's equally a case of "hope deferred making the heart sick"? I've gone to a few meetings with other pomo explorers, and more than once, the agenda of the meeting boiled down to:

1. pontificating on the "latest" ideas and trends in order to demonstrate who the "true" pomo's really were, so that,
   
2. the "pecking order" of who would be deferred to as the Head Pomo can be established (all the while protesting that there are no "leaders")
   

Still, I'm going to go, perhaps a little cautiously, but just in case there's some people there with a Kingdom mindset and humble heart, I don't want to miss the chance to meet them.

I'll let you know how it goes. I'd actually be really excited to be proved completely wrong about these gatherings -- there's got to be people somewhere who want to restructure in order to see God's glory revealed in His people, and not just to create another self-congratulatory and insulated Christian subculture.