My life has been busy, so this seems to be a good time to offer up a potpourri post. I begin with a set of posts that might fall under the general topic of relevancy in the local church.
- Glenn Chatfield passes along Nancy Pearcey’s admonition to make our method as Christian as our message.
- Tanya Nevin offers her reasons for joining a dead religion. Some of you will object to the Lutheran understanding of Baptism and Lord’s Supper near the end of the post, but she does a solid job of describing the vacuity of relevance.
- Jonathan Aigner has two recent posts that I thought were helpful. (FYI, he writes at Patheos, which inundates readers with advertising, much of which is questionable.) The first makes a case that worship should be boring—exceedingly boring—to help us remember that worship is not an experience, but an honored communal time with God Almighty. The second offers 10 Reasons to Follow the Liturgical Calendar. All local assemblies should do this, even if just one time through the year, though once would really sell it short.
- Mary Abrahamson shares the wisdom of teaching hymns, rather than simple choruses, to children. And, in my mind, if that is good advice for children, it is doubly so for instructing adults.
- Lastly, Caleb Keith helps us understand the benefits of Moving to Paper. True, this does not deal directly with worship or the gospel, but I think he makes a good point for “outdated” methods being the best for an intended purpose.
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