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rabbits-of-negative-euphoria · 2 months ago

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if the purpose of contemporary worship is to meet the culture where it's at, we are about to lose the need for contemporary worship

I don't think I'm imagining that the trend in both high-profile and social media conversion testimonies in recent years is that people are broken down by the self-focused, anti-corporeal, progressive spiritualism of modern secularism and instead are looking for community-based, embodied, historical religion

this is why they tend to start with and end up in the Latin Mass Roman Catholic or conservative-leaning mainline protestant churches

all I'm sayin is that when you have Richard Dawkins declaring he wants to remain in a culture that sings hymns and builds beautiful churches...that's your sign to start thinkin bout liturgy

#Christianity #x #ideally one would enjoy the hymns and liturgy for their own sake but that's my Scottish sensibility rearing its head #I've been a member of both types of church #the PCA is generally 'middle church' meaning we follow a basic liturgy and aim for modestly beautiful church buildings #but there is variation within that. I'd say my last church is on the more contemporary end and my current one is more traditional #I think it's really hard for the 80s and 90s generation of converts to understand that a church's 'cool' factor is becoming irrelevant #at a popular level #people would rather visit a church that they don't quite understand yet than visit one that mimics the culture they've grown to hate

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