Relevance, but What of the Message?

What wor­ries me to a great extent is the drive with which future church lead­ers are trained to be rel­e­vant to cul­ture, and in the process for­get­ting about the mes­sage they are sup­posed to be rel­e­vant with. The prob­lem isn’t that the church is irrel­e­vant, or that the pre­sen­ta­tion is irrel­e­vant (nec­es­sar­ily). The prob­lem is that the church has retreated from cul­ture. An inabil­ity to think crit­i­cally will do the church in…… (Read more)