Goth Eucharist and Rock n' Roll Services
CNN has a video piece on a "trend", Goth or dark Eucharist services in the Church of England, designed to draw in younger people who find church "irrelevant".
On the one hand, it can be easy to say that at least these people are coming to church. They may be opening up a Bible, they are gathered together, they may even be believers. It is sometimes too easy to point to church services that don't look like ours and
But on the other hand, this smacks of trying to make what is naturally attractive to the elect and conversely foolishness and abhorrent to unbelievers seem more culturally relevant. If a person is born again, regenerate, they don't need to have a service that is more relevant to them. The Gospel message is the great unifier. I believe very firmly that when you try to make the Gospel and the world more compatible, it is always the Gospel that is forced to compromise and there can be no compromise with the only Gospel that saves.
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