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Originally Posted by missourimary
I think that video is already showing in several churches around here regularly. 
Not to ask a stupid question, but is this a play on what most people consider "relevant church"? Lots of variety in music, all contemporary music, generally a band and stage lighting, coffee and donuts, casual clothing?
I visited a Trinitarian church like this on a trip a few months ago. The stage lights surprised me. The coffee was nice. Clothing can be as overdone to the casual side as it can to the formal side.
Kind of reminds me of conference, minus the coffee and casual clothes. |
The stage scene is probably something of a fad. Such things come and go, though the informal approach has proven to be effective in many communities.
The whole idea of "relevant" doesn't really apply to matters of style entirely, in my opinion. "Relevance" as it applies to the Bible has more to do with how these ancient texts are understood and applied in our lives today.
Obviously, making a pile of Philistine foreskins is going to be considered an "irrelevant" practice today. There are many other aspects of the ancient world that require us to take a more "relevant" approach as well; such as ancient geocentric cosmology, the 20th century fad of re-experiencing ancient ecstatic rites and making such rites a standard of salvation and many other things.
Tuck or untuck your shirt as you feel "led;" whatever, but make the message of the Bible relevant to reality and our lives in general.
/Just MHO as always...
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