new voices

We need new voices in the Christian community.  Have you ever been to a Christian book section and paid special attention to demographic breakdown of the authors?  Have you been to a Christian conference and noticed how all the speakers have some strong similarities?  We need new voices to emerge.  We need voices that do not just come from a white male perspective.  We need to look for the voices, and give them a platform to tell their story.  The white men need to show leadership by stepping aside, listening, and learning.

relevance

Over the past few years churches and the Christian community have spent a lot of time, money, and effort to make the church relevant. We have better music, cool videos, and better speakers. We dress more casual, pastors have tattoos, and the line between Christ and culture has been blurred.

I started reading Jesus for President recently (I will but up a review soon) and it made me think about relevance and culture. Jesus did not come to be culturally relevant, he was counter culture. Which makes me think….what are we doing? Who are we following?