Chasing coolness won’t work. In my experience, churches that try to be cool end up with a pathetic facsimile of what was cool about 10 years ago. And if you’ve got a congregation of businessmen and soccer moms, donning a hip veneer will only make you laughable to the younger generation.
—Drew Dyck, “Millennials Need A Bigger God, Not A Hipper Pastor” (HT: Aquila Report)
R. Scott Clark
R.Scott Clark is the President of the Heidelberg Reformation Association, the author and editor of, and contributor to several books and the author of many articles. He is professor emeritus of church history and historical theology at Westminster Seminary California, where he taught for 29 years. He also taught at Wheaton College, Reformed Theological Seminary, and Concordia University. He has hosted the Heidelblog since 2007 and the Heidelcast since 2009.
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Good insight. In my experience, churches who try such things can be smelled a mile away by those they are trying to reach! I keep telling people everywhere that the 20 and 30 somethings want worship with substance and meaning. I am a parent to 4 of them and can testify to that.
Glad you added the bit in parentheses. You know where the original title comes from – A “God” that contradicts his word by bringing the spirit of C.S.Lewis back from the dead to speak to J.B.P. is a size too “great” for me! Incorporating the imaginary numbers into the set of all numbers (whether the set of all fractionals or the larger set of all reals) doesn’t make the set any larger (If I were a real mathematician I could prove this).