If ever a blog caused me to shout, "Amen!", then it is the one to be found via this link: http://tinyurl.com/2apswrn
The blog is around five years old, but it captures my heartbeat. I long, almost with desperation (if you can be "almost" desperate), for originality in the Church. I myself have fallen prey to ripping off catch-phrases in our culture. And honestly, I think ON OCCASION it can be a good thing.
My concern with many of us modern church leaders is that we have taken the easy way out and fallen prey to piggy-backing society's successful marketing tactics -- whether God told us to or not! The result is an undeniable absence originality in the Church when compared with the level of creativity culture is currently producing. This ought not be when the Creator of the Universe lives within us. Surely, creativity does not have to be stale, when we have access to such unlimited creative power.
May God raise up culture-shakers! Image-breakers. Jesus followers. Men and women with faith like John the Baptist, who are so different that the world responds to them although the Church rejects them--then have the courage to stand there and risk their head in spite of not being given a plaque by their local ministerial fellowship or denominational hierarchy!
The result will be an empowered, original approach to worship & preaching that will reach the Harvest in a way that the world's curiosity can not resist!
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