Blake has a great post where he examines the dangers of being “cool” vs. being “traditional”
Gospel Relevance, Coolness and Offense
In it, he states the obvious (to me anyhow) if you are being cool, JUST so you can get more people in the door, you run the risk of watering down the gospel so that it is inoffensive too. But if you refuse to be cool, (i.e., if you stick to your traditions) in order to prevent the church from watering down the gospel, you run the equal risk of obscuring the gospel.
Neither, in the end, proclaims the gospel successfully. And the devil really doesn’t care which path you take, personally or corporately, just so long as you lose site of the goal: proclaiming the Gospel, and equipping the saints.
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