Friday, September 05, 2003

Sheesh...I quote "Seinfeld" all the time...
I really believe entertainment in a lot of ways has become a way for people to come together. It has, in fact, become--I'm convinced of this--it's become a replacement for religion. And I think that in the same way people used to quote Scripture they're now quoting ‘Seinfeld’
Michael Wolfe,Media consultant (MTV) , New Yorker December 1st, 2000

Hummm...this made me think.
"So many pastors today and pundits today, they’re saying, we’ve got to re-invent the church and get it moving forward, a new kind of Christian for the new kind of age, as Bishop Sean says. But the fact is you look at the scriptures and Christian history, the church always goes forward by first going back. And what we’re after is not re-inventing the church, but reviving the church. And part of revival and reformation is always going back to God’s standards.

This craze to be relevant. And words like re-inventing, and so on, everywhere. And we’ve got to examine these and ask what we’re really doing. And I point out simply, you know, when I first came to the faith, if the church was in bad shape, there would be prayer for revival.

Today if the church is in bad shape, we talk about re-invention. But what the church needs is revival, not re-invention. It’s not something we do by getting up-to-date, it’s something the Lord does by bringing us back to the power of his truth and his Spirit"
-Os Guinness

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