The Awesome-ness Driven Church

Posted by MK | Filed under Church

Jared Wilson with a cutting, and accurate, post here:

It is widely repeated that a Korean pastor once visited the United States and remarked at the end of his stay, “It’s amazing what you people can do without the Holy Spirit.”

Yesterday I watched a video of a motocross bike jumping over a pastor on stage. Now, I’m not saying that church or its pastor don’t have the Holy Spirit, but I am saying that setting up a dirtbike track in your sanctuary is profoundly stupid.

What is profoundly stupid is the sheer amount of innovation, creativity, energy, ambition, and astounding levels of human wherewithal that go into crafting the most amazing worship experiences Americans have ever seen inside churches where the gospel isn’t preached. I can say this because there’s only one thing we hold that the New Testament calls “power,” and that’s the gospel.

Read the rest here. God, wake us up to the inherent power of the spoken word. We don’t need to “sweeten” the gospel. It does find on its own.

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Permalink | Comments (3) | Aug 9, 2010

3 Responses to “The Awesome-ness Driven Church”

  1. CarrieZ Says:
    August 9th, 2010 at 10:42 am

    I drove by a local church a few minutes ago. The display outside: “Sermonless Worship Service Sunday 10:00.”

  2. Becky Dietz Says:
    August 9th, 2010 at 12:57 pm

    Oh.my.goodness. I thought that was the wildest thing I’d heard til I read Carrie’s comment.

  3. TAYLOR Says:
    August 10th, 2010 at 6:01 am

    Awesome. Really awesome. Now, if we could just get the right people to read this.

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