More Thoughts on Church and Millennials

You can never outbid a socialist. You can never out-shock a reprobate. You can never out-cool the world.

by Rod D. Martin
August 4, 2013

After posting those articles this morning about Millennials leaving the church, I kept thinking.  And truly, I think what is missing in the rush to make church "contemporary" or "cool" (and let us not even go so far as the hopelessly failed Willow Creek "seeker sensitive" model) is simply this:

You can never outbid a socialist. You can never out-shock a reprobate. You can never out-cool the world. The church is not here to be "cool". The church is here to be true. The church is here to be stable, like the Rock on which it is built. The church is here to be set apart: holy. And it should make you feel an authenticity and worshipfulness and awe which is wholly lacking as we increasingly chase the wind.

Memo to pastors: the very fact that you do anything immediately renders it uncool. Don't even bother. Be the spotless bride of Christ, the glorious church, awesome as an army with banners. Be part of -- and more importantly, lead -- something bigger than yourse…