iChurch - in Touch The church must consider the serious question of relevance. In the early 90’s, a denomination surveyed a southern city where it wanted to plant a church. The survey centered around a single question: Why don’t you attend church? 74% of those surveyed indicated they felt there was no value in attending church. 34% believed the church had no relevance to the way they lived. While the church does not exist to accommodate secular definitions of relevance, we must also face up to the dilemma framed in the lyrics of an old song: “Why spend our time answering questions no one’s asking?” "There is a high cost of not understanding a generation, not doing the homework necessary to gain a fair hearing of the gospel. We must understand that it is possible to be culturally relevant, and at the same time biblically sound in our approach to the unchurched. These two ideas are not mutually exclusive." -- Ronald Ferrell
Posted on: Fri, 30 Aug 2013 13:03:40 +0000
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