What would happen if you could find a church where the Bible comes alive? What would happen if your church service used words that normal people could understand? What would happen if the music were familiar and made sense? What would happen if you addressed issues that people really care about, that could really make their lives different? What would happen if you had a church where you could invite a friend and there would be a good chance that he or she could understand and begin to experience an inner life change?
It is not only about being relevant. It is not about having a contemporary service with drums and guitars or adding drama to your line-up. It is about turning around, staring your culture straight in the face, and leveraging that culture to reach people for Christ. It is about bringing pieces of the culture into the church in order to make the Bible understood, and highlighting where biblical principles are already present in pop culture. It is about not giving up on the church but changing our view of church from the inside out to that we begin to see life-transformational changes in our communities.
It is about getting out of your holy huddles, turning around and looking real people right in the eyes, seeing the lives they live and the problems they encounter (as messy and unholy as they might be).
If we keep doing what we have always done, we will keep getting what we have always gotten-- and I am not satisfied with that.
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