About Relevance
- Michael Burgner
- Cleveland, Tennessee, United States
- With all the modern terms used to describe culture and the modern church I like to simplify things and just say RELEVANCE! We're living in a Post-Christian or Post-Modern culture in America and many label modern churches as emergent and leaders as emerging. The term emergent is a bit confusing though it means "rising, up & coming, or promising." I like to say we're relevant! Relevant to what? Relevant to 21st century culture. I am determined to present the Gospel to 21st century post-christian culture and be effective in doing so. God used me in the 20th century to reach that culture and I celebrate what the church did in the last century. However, I refuse to replace relevance for religion. Whatever it takes to make the Gospel of Jesus Christ relevant to the 21st century, that is what I'm willing to do. My childhood was spend as the son of a pastor, and I became a preacher at the age of 18. I've been married since 1987 and have a boy and a girl.
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Making Of A Masterpiece2--Removing The Mud
Removing mud is a process! If archeologists were to discover an ancient painting buried in the ground, covered with mud, the process of removing that mud would be rather involved. The same is true with removing mud and sin from the lives of people. Just as the buried work of art would have to taken to an expert, people must be taken to Jesus Christ to be cleansed of sin and mud! Religion is impatient with this process and takes matters into its own hands by expecting people to live up to a list of man-made standards and regulations. The church must create a culture of love and acceptance that allows muddy sinners to grow and change at their own pace. If we try to clean up people we will permanently damage them.
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