Tales of a Secret Rockstar

That song has just been getting me the last couple of days.
Just thought I'd throw that out there.

Last night I was driving home from watching an atrocious football game (from my Denver supporting perspective), and I asked myself this question: What does North American Christianity look like? I've been reading this textbook I had in College, "The Story of Christianity," by Justo Gonzalez, and I've been fascinated to track (in a broad overview) the development of Christian thought over the centuries. How Christian theology came to be more sharply defined as it contested with heresies that threatened to derail it. How Church government became hierarchal through both outside political forces and internal pressures. How great Christian thinkers and leaders came to the forefront in every generation, to confront the situations that threatened the church. I suppose all that reading led me to that question. Essentially, what are the defining characteristics of the North American church? Are we leaving the impact that we should be leaving on our world? I think the influence and power of the Western World is waning somewhat, and I wonder if that's being reflected in the waning influence of the Western Church in its own culture.

It's a tough question. And (partly in order to keep myself from getting all "emerging") it led me to this question:

What does my Christianity look like?