Reality = Wild

Or does it?

Sarah made an interesting statement today.

"I want there to be more culture in the church... Theres not much [compelling] to the normal service... except communion."

We need to be raw. We need to be free. We need to start acting like the family that we are, and being the body that resembles a family. How's that too much to ask?

The church is it's own culture. Walk in the doors, and you know right away it's a different place than the rest of your world. In my opinion, much of it needs to be that way, but some of it needs to change. Holding onto specifics for the sake of retaining the expected 'church-ness', when it conflicts with meeting the needs of the community or driving away the people that already question the church, is a bad bad move.

Relevancy is a new important word among Christians on the forefront. Is what you do relevant to the culture around you?

Lets put it this way: You can have the most amazing hamburgers in the world at your burger joint. But move onto Buger St. Maryland, where there are tons of other really well done burger joints, and you have no purpose. Most likely you will fail within a few months.

Compare this to something a little closer to relevancy involving religion.

Imagine the particular church body is situated in a community with demographics of older white men. The duties of this church would be mostly directed to older white men.

But say you move that church into a community of young black men.

Conflict.

It's a matter of relevance.

So in our case, is it that the church not directed at the community?
Is there a way to better the effect on the community?