I am not an expert on pop culture or what is the latest trend in music or the arts. But I have a feeling that we are a rock and roll Fellowship trying to reach a hip hop generation. It is natural to use what we know to reach out. But what if what we know went out of style with our parents and we are looked at as irrelevant and out of touch?
When the hippies got saved under pastor Mitchell he proved that even though he was not into their scene he was open to their methods. All he did was apply biblical guidelines to what the young people wanted to do and it worked.
Time has moved on and the sixties is ancient history in a streaming new world. I see video or hear soundtracks and I wonder why I don't recognize any of the music. I have been out of touch since the early 1970's. And we have raised our children to abstain from worldly music. So we have modern religious radio who is playing music that went out of style decades ago.
The Gospel is timeless. It works wherever it is preached. But the use of music to attract young people to hear the Gospel is not working and hasn't worked for a long time. It almost seems that we put too much value on an old tool that once worked but is almost useless today.
Does anyone in our Fellowship have a sense of what will work today? Does anyone have the courage to buck tradition and try something new?
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