What’s Wrong With This picture?

Posted by Buck Jacobs on Mar 24th, 2011 | no comments home title

Just a short note today, something that I hope you would think about. Really just a couple of simple questions.

First, the style of music that is dominant in the “seeker” or “emergent” churches; was it developed in the church and taken into the world, or was it developed in the world and brought into the church? You know what I mean; the driving drum beat, amplified guitars, strutting “praise leaders”, music so loud that you can’t hear the person next to you singing repeated over and over and over and louder each time? Where did all that come from?

Second, the dress that we see most common in the churches today, you know, pastors in jeans with jelled hair, and their shirts unbuttoned, women and teeny-boppers with all they have out for all to see etc., was that developed in the church and adopted by the world, or is it the other way around?

And, as we watch church attendance decline, and see out nation sliding further and further into amoral “whatever”- my question is “how’s it workin’ for ya?” Think we’re OK? Headed in the right direction?

Do you really think that the way to win the world is to bring it into the church? Really?