Different perspective...
Our church started it's life 30 years ago as a conservative faith, where men wore suits to church.
A few years into things, one of the elders read that only 65% of American men owned a suit. The pastoral staff and elder board took time to discuss whether they wanted to start by giving up on the souls of 35% of men who didn't own a suit.
They decided to get rid of suits. It was a transition. They went to leisure suits, then sweaters, then left that behind.
Today, we are informal. We do not want barriers to leading people to Christ. Every time we hold our quarterly baptism, there are typically 200 or so people who were formerly unchurched, who have come to Christ for eternal life and are publicly following Him in obedience. We just passed 14,000 members, divided out in 8 congregations in our area.
I've never seen anything like it. I've come to believe people need Christ as much as always and they know it. When you teach truth in a culturally relevant way, you grow. If you are culturally irrelevant, you alienate those in the culture. If you give up truth, you are a social club. You need both.
AMEN!!!
Luke 14:23
And the master said to the servant, 'Go out into the highways and hedges and compel them to come in, so that my house may be filled.