Don't read this if there are small children in the room or any open wounds from a bad pair of shoes...

I was just watching a CBS Sunday Morning program on "crossover classical" music. Classical music with young good looking men and women with electronic beats and bare midriffs. This is causing a stir. "How can the music survive unless they spice it up a little and make it relevant to the culture of the youth," one producers was saying.

Isn't that what EC is saying of the church.

I'm tired of this...

I don't think the relevance of anything is style but truth. If style is the only thing that we concern ourselves with and continue to half heartedly participate faithfully to God then we are nothing more than producers with an investment instead of worshippers with gratitude. Did the Christ really go through that hideous death so we would argue about worship times and music, theatrics and mood? Do we hold fast on to the things of a culture than dig deep into a faith and power that sets people free from bondage. Have we equated bondage with culture. Are we more concern with our comfort than with the love of Christ. We have 40 days of spiritual adventures then we take the summer off because the choir is tired and needs a rest. We go to Mexico with the youth on mission trips but treat the older generation with contempt for worshiping they way they do. We have become very prejudice against people. People who worship Christ!!!!!

I am tired of the argument. I am tired of pompous asses on both sides of the argument who are mad because their way of "worshipping" is threatened. What if the government said no more church services and people had to meet in secrecy. What would we bring? What would we sing? What would we think was important that we would risk our lives for not just our comfort?

The church is not going to die because of the enemy keeping us from worship but from people getting tired of this conversation and staying home.