mardi, février 22, 2005 The following is a post from here. I tried to summarise it, but I think it works better when I just plagarise without permission. Whatever it is, it pretty much crystallises one side of the Cool vs Relevant Jesus debate. The argument that many youth ministries have is that we have to portray Jesus as hip and cool because we want to be "relevant" to teens/youth today - but how true is that? I think what Miller says below really says it all - whom are we trying to help: the cause of the cross or ourselves, in order that we don't become social outcasts? I think this is something I've got to remember as we move slowly but surely on in our youth ministry planning.Article Starts Here >>> Don Miller, author of Blue Like Jazz and Searching For God Knows What, hits the nail on the head in this interview with the Wittenburg Door. Trying to make Jesus hip or cool is not good marketing. Distorting who or what you are is dishonest, inauthentic--and it sucks. DOOR: How do you react to evangelicals that present Christianity as being cool and hip? [A Cool Jesus Sucks] |
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