Looking for the next wave,

In the article Popcorn in the Pews, there is a quote that sums up contemporary Christianity’s whorish need to be relevant.

“Everybody is looking for the next wave. We went from cathedrals to churches with pews and vaulted ceilings to the Willow Creek model — the theater seats and big screens and big production — and for me, the biggest movement right now is the intimacy issue,” said Snider. “How do we do ‘big’ small? If we have to get 500 people in a space, how do we get it to not feel like 500 people?” – Greg Snider

Why is everyone looking for the next wave?  Are the unchangeable precepts of God as transient as a wave?  Do the eternal Scriptures need to surf the changing need of culture?  Have the need of man’s soul changed in the last 6,000 years?  Then why are we perpetually striving to be relevant?

I firmly believe that true Christianity is always outside the box of culture and that Heavenly ideas are always difficult for the unregenerate to comprehend. Our shameless need for acceptance from the world reveals our whormongering nature and backslidden condition.

Jude 1:13  Raging waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, to whom is reserved the blackness of darkness for ever.

Now, I am not against renting buildings.  Our church rents, and many others do also.  Because of the evil nature of the movie industry, I might have difficulty renting a theatre.  But it is the need to be culurally neutral, the urge to blend and homogenize that irritates and vexes my soul.

Christian, don’t ride the wave.  Anchor to the Rock, and let the waves break as they may.

There will always be another wave…

There is only one Rock.