The modern, church-as-franchise mentality where "one size fits all" no longer exists, either. Your contexts are all unique—your kids and your situations and your churches and the local communities in which God’s planted you all are special.
That’s why you—the youth workers of the new century—must become missionaries to your local cultures and communities. You must train and equip your students to reach out to their particular contexts. Because it will be your students —on their own cutting edges—who will do the work, not you. You’re not going to live in a youth culture 24 hours a day, seven days a week! And even if you could, no one person can reach all those cutting edges. You can, however, train a whole fleet of missionaries. And they can transform a culture! Click here for the whole article.
The title of the above article struck me as much as its content.
I wonder... is this what we need in America... a second reformation by which we once again cast off the trappings of culture that pass for religion and embrace a truer faith, stripped down to its raw essence? Are we too timid in our calls for "change" in the way we do this business of church when what we really need is something much more radical?
Centuries ago, brave men stood for truth against a culture which was hostile towards the same. They rocked boats. They rocked the world.
Centuries later other men took a stand for truth, leaving their homes and a dead religious system to come to a new world where they could start fresh and build a church on different principles. These men and their descendants founded this great nation, or perhaps I should say once great nation, which has fallen so far from the place she once stood.
Is God raising up men (and women) today for another Reformation... if we are bold enough to follow Him?
What do you think?
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