Comments on: Rural Rant http://www.tillhecomes.org/blog/2008/04/29/rural-rant/ Living life on mission Wed, 03 Mar 2010 06:07:19 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.1 hourly 1 By: Jeremy Myers http://www.tillhecomes.org/blog/2008/04/29/rural-rant/comment-page-1/#comment-36956 Jeremy Myers Wed, 30 Apr 2008 00:21:47 +0000 http://www.tillhecomes.org/blog/?p=291#comment-36956 Chris, Hmmm...the way you explain "culturally relevant" helps me understand where the statement was coming from.... I love your blog and really wish I could have been at Exponential to meet you! Chris,

Hmmm…the way you explain “culturally relevant” helps me understand where the statement was coming from….

I love your blog and really wish I could have been at Exponential to meet you!

]]> By: Chris Elrod http://www.tillhecomes.org/blog/2008/04/29/rural-rant/comment-page-1/#comment-36910 Chris Elrod Tue, 29 Apr 2008 20:27:49 +0000 http://www.tillhecomes.org/blog/?p=291#comment-36910 Nice rant. :-) My comment came from a lot of talk I kept hearing about the need for urban church planters to be more culturally relevant than they currently are. The crazy thing is that Tim Keller...a pretty successful urban church pastor...never really jumped on that band wagon at Exponential. Here is guy that has a church that is really liturgical, extremely traditional, not in any way hip...yet is a catalyst for reaching thousands of young, culturally-relevant white-collar 20-somethings in New York. It kind of blew the whole "need to be more culturally relevant" argument out of the water. Please also understand that the way that I kept hearing "culturally relevant" being used had nothing to do with actually studying local culture and then trying to be relevant in bringing the Truth of the Bible to the folks of that culture. Culturally relevant in the way I kept hearing it was more about fashion, window dressing, hair cuts and being in vogue. A balding, gray-haired, older man in a button down shirt and suit coat was the most culturally relevant speaker at Exponential...and looked nothing like the part. :-) Nice rant. :-)

My comment came from a lot of talk I kept hearing about the need for urban church planters to be more culturally relevant than they currently are. The crazy thing is that Tim Keller…a pretty successful urban church pastor…never really jumped on that band wagon at Exponential. Here is guy that has a church that is really liturgical, extremely traditional, not in any way hip…yet is a catalyst for reaching thousands of young, culturally-relevant white-collar 20-somethings in New York. It kind of blew the whole “need to be more culturally relevant” argument out of the water.

Please also understand that the way that I kept hearing “culturally relevant” being used had nothing to do with actually studying local culture and then trying to be relevant in bringing the Truth of the Bible to the folks of that culture. Culturally relevant in the way I kept hearing it was more about fashion, window dressing, hair cuts and being in vogue.

A balding, gray-haired, older man in a button down shirt and suit coat was the most culturally relevant speaker at Exponential…and looked nothing like the part. :-)

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