Trying to make Christianity cool | Cranach: The Blog of Veith

Another blog I frequent for thoughtful insight is the “Cranach: The blog of Veith“.  Here is a recent post referencing an article in from WSJ.com.

The article is written from a twenty-something point of view and challenges the current trend of churches to try to be trendy.  Throughout the article Brett McCracken references the different ways churches have tried and are trying to be “culturally relevant” and cool.

I can identify with his final statement and believe that the church should take it to heart.

He says,

If the evangelical Christian leadership thinks that “cool Christianity” is a sustainable path forward, they are severely mistaken. As a twentysomething, I can say with confidence that when it comes to church, we don’t want cool as much as we want real.

If we are interested in Christianity in any sort of serious way, it is not because it’s easy or trendy or popular. It’s because Jesus himself is appealing, and what he says rings true. It’s because the world we inhabit is utterly phony, ephemeral, narcissistic, image-obsessed and sex-drenched—and we want an alternative. It’s not because we want more of the same.

I pray that twenty-somethings and “any-somethings” find a church where they can, and will experience genuine and authentic Christianity being lived out in community as God intended.

Trying to make Christianity cool | Cranach: The Blog of Veith.