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I favor that approach as well. Music matters too. Are the lyrics rehearsing the gospel? Are they reflecting biblical teaching, or is it really more of an inspirational kind of personal experience?

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The attractional church tends to lean toward the worshiper being the audience. So smaller congregations. I also travel and speak pretty widely within all kinds of traditions: Evangelical Free, Brethren, Presbyterian and even some Anglican. And what I see across the board among the younger generations is a disavowal of the attractional thing. Where I first saw this was in the response to my book The Prodigal Church.

I wrote that book as a critique of the attractional paradigm, but I wrote it in a way that I hoped pastors in that movement could pick it up and not see somebody shaking their fist at them but just asking gentle questions, kind of like over coffee.


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I really hoped it would land with the gatekeepers, but who I heard a lot from were guys in the second and third chairs, in particular youth pastors. That book helped them. But for others and for quite a few guys in our residency at Liberty Baptist, it really does come out of the wreckage of their own life and a turnaround.

Gospel centrality is in their bones, and those are the folks with whom I really see a lot of hope for the future of the church. Sometimes things get healthier when they get smaller, and the church might have to get smaller before it gets bigger. We understand that preaching actually changes people.

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Over the life of the church, the diet of preaching really does change and affect and cultivate what a church values. If you make the transition to gospel-centeredness, it takes a while to change. You have to chip away over time and polish. In general I think it happens in spite of it.

When you see the lifespan of folks at some of these churches, they tend to top out at about four years, when they move on. The church primarily exists to evangelize and not really to disciple. Anybody who sticks around beyond the baby Christian stage has to do it on their own, to some extent. So if it happens, it happens in spite of, but typically those people end up leaving and going to another church.

I was at a church plant in Houston that used the Willow Creek model, and we were very up front about that. We would say, Hey, our role as a church is to reach people. We all play roles in the body. Jesus called us to make disciples, not just converts. What I hope everyone can agree on is that we want healthy churches, though we may have a different vision for what that looks like. So is church worth going deeper, doing a little bit harder work to look at some of the metrics that tell us more about the state of our church?

Serving God Together as a Family. Tips for Talking With Skeptics. Getting Away to Find New Ideas. Grant Skeldon: Reaching Millennials—Part 1. How We Innovate. How to Properly Handle Donations. Kara Lawler: Everywhere Holy. As we draw people into the church, we end up polluting the very church we are drawing them into. It seems as if this is happening in the church and missions today. Church members and missionaries are claiming to hold the idea of sola scriptura, the sufficiency of Scripture alone as the source of their authority, while in practice they are seeking unbiblical methods of evangelism in order to grow the number of decisions made.

However, it is not like missionaries or other believers are doing this on purpose hopefully at least. It would be wise for all Christians to check themselves to see whether they seek out a pragmatic philosophy or not.

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This is a vital issue that is rarely discussed or even noticed because people do not want to admit that their church, or maybe even themselves, might practice a pragmatic philosophy of ministry and missions. But, this must be addressed and asked of ourselves because pragmatism is in fact infecting our churches and missions. You are commenting using your WordPress.

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