Don't Just Do Something, Stand There!
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Forty two years I've been in the ministry. Seen a lot of things. Do you know what I've noticed? Christianity is trendy. Especially in this country where everyone follows the winds of change to exploit change. Here is what I've noted. 1. Crusades and mass meetings: These were in the 50's and 60's. (Before me, mind you.) Billy Graham made them famous but this was the American means of educational events for decades – lecturers and mass gatherings. They waned. 2. Coffee houses: Now we're in the 50's and 60's again as the church noticed that youth were alienated and disengaged, we kind of followed the Paris existentialist hangouts and smoky bars for the free expression of ideas. They waned. 3. Bands: Christian bands took the new Christian music of the 60's and 70's into the coffee shops and churches " reached a new generation with their own music. " Must have been a hundred of them. They waned somewhat. They're not as bad anyway. 4. Bussing ministries: Jerry Falwell got famous in the 60's and 70's for taking kids to Sunday School then visiting the parents. He built a church and denomination of Baptists doing this. They waned – save for Jacob Ray's relative in Arkansas. 5. Sharing services: These were popular in the 70's and 80's. Started in California where free speech platforms were everywhere. They waned. I think people wearied of hearing everyone else. 6. Charismania: Emotion was all in the 70's. It evolved into Health and Wealth. People just got wore out and tired of the bizarre. 7. Health and Wealth: The health wore out but the success gospel continues in the big cities, but it's too difficult to find a success motivation speaker in every location. They're more isolated. 8. Mini Churches: 70's and 80's. They offered a more controlled sharing time. Not as ubiquitous now because discipleship didn't follow and. .. (see #5). 9. Multi-‐purpose buildings: 70's and 80's phenomenon. You built your church to be converted into an indoor soccer field by 12:30 on Sundays. They waned also. I think people just got weary of a church that really wasn't a church. Now churches look like Raytheon. Architecture is the art of ideas. 10. Seeker sensitive: Had a good motivation but waned because of the aftermath of spiritual shallowness and the weariness of having to be " creative " (an 80's mantra) every …
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Minnesota medicine
دوره 88 8 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1971