Most of you don't even have to watch the video to know what I'm talking about!
Have you ever gone into a church and felt like that? If we use an arcade as an analogy, it would be like walking in and having the option of playing Frogger compared to playing Terminator with those life like guns and 3D graphics that we have today. Yes, I just went there.
See most of our churches are like that. And I don't mean that because they still use pews, have traditional buildings, or even have paneled walls. You can have the most beautiful new buildings in America, but still be the cafe 80's of the church...and that's not a compliment.
What we have done is become irrelevant. Old news. Old fashioned. Ancient. It's like we still talk about land lines and no one even has one any more. (My mom even got rid of her land line for a cell phone!) I mean how crazy is it that we have let ourselves become that?
No! I am not saying we have to compromise our beliefs to reap the harvest God has called us to reap. No! I am not saying that we have to preach only the pretty, soft, and comforting topics in the Bible.
Our pastor in Kentucky always referred to a lot of what is being spoken in the world today as a "watered-down blended cocktail". Oh, I like this let's put it in our doctrine and this over here, I'd like a dash of that mixed in. Yeah, let's play sweet home alabama for worship because we all know heaven is in Alabama.
See we can't be like that and compromise truth for comfort and entertainment. We have to hold true and fast to the word of God and believe in what He tells us. We can't determine how we will be relevant by what is nice and pretty.
If God's word was all tiptoeing through the tulips then we wouldn't have stories of martyrs dying for the cause of Christ. We wouldn't have stories of prisoners because of their unwavering faith in God.
We can be relevant. We just have to meet people where they are at. We have to understand that we once were sinners and the only difference between them and me is the fact that grace stepped in. Without the grace of God, we would all be sinners destined to death.
We don't have to be so out of touch that our churches feel like Cafe 80's. (Although, I know some of you are all about Cafe 80's, the 80's needs to stay where it is, in the past.) We can be relevant even without bells and whistles. All we have to do is continue to stand and speak the truth of the Word of God.
I encourage you. Be relevant. Not entertaining and compromising, but relevant. Stand tall. Stand firm.
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