Well, OK...but why? :)
Then the music starts and the lyrics sound like thirteen-year-old girls in their bedroom talking about the cute boy Jesus down the street. I seem to remember hymns - where did they all go?
My stepson is a pastor trying to reinvigorate an older, dying church by appealing to new, younger members. He is a great speaker and people come just to hear him. But I struggle to make any theological/philosophical sense out of his sermons, which sometimes offer good advice but on a Dr. Phil level.
Yeah, not a fan of Praise music, or even modern “hymns” as put out by Keith and Krystin Getty, and many others.
Give me an old fashioned hymn anyday.
You have a point. When I hear the pastor use phrases like ‘racial inequality,’ I immediately think of solutions based rejoinders like, ‘personal responsibility,’ instead, the sermon devolves into ‘white guilt’ bromides ... and completely loses me.
And this is a fairly conservative church that has recently been highly influenced by Tim Keller.
Part of the problem is there is no Hell. Too many sermons and homilies are constructed around “Be nice.”