culture, part i
Posted by nathan on 12 Dec 2006 | Tagged as: thoughts on god.
I don’t think any church has ever been relevant to culture, to the the human struggle, unless it believed in Jesus and the power of His gospel. If the supposed new church believes in trendy music and cool Web pages, then it is not relevant to culture either. It is just another tool of Satan to get people to be passionate about nothing.
-Don Miller
Do you agree with this statement?
3 Comments »
on 12 Dec 2006 at 8:00 pm 1.
Abby! said …
If the “trendy music” or the “cool web pages” are the focus of the church, and the only means by which we try to bring people in…where is Jesus?
If the Gospel gets lost in the chaos of our attempt to attract any generation, there is absolutely no relevancy. Passion is a beautiful thing, but when it’s not a passion for God alone, our devotion only becomes watered down by the vain image we’re trying to portray.
on 13 Dec 2006 at 11:49 am 2.
Todd Helmkamp said …
The power of distraction.
on 15 Dec 2006 at 3:45 am 3.
joe said …
Frankly, I could care less about methodology and technique. I am concerned with mission. My mission is to reach the lost, and then disciple them. Any churches mission should be to reach the lost, and to disciple those who are reached.
I will need to apply techniques to make that mission happen, but I should never ever let the techniques determine the mission.
I believe that a church absorbed in technique is convinced that it is “missional”-that it’s techniques are actually expressions of it’s mission, while they are actually methods that replace missional thinking.
Cal Guy said, “We apply the pragmatic test to the work of the theologian. Does his theology motivate men to go into all the world and make disciples? Does it so undergird them that they, thus motivated, succeed in this primary purpose? Theology must stand the test of being known by its fruit.”
If contextualizing the gospel weakens it, THEN DON’T DO IT! But, if contextualizing it helps reach someone, without weakening it, then you have actually strengthened it.
That’s my two cents. If it doesn’t make sense, I’ll be happy to explain further.