{"id":37,"date":"2004-05-26T18:16:35","date_gmt":"2004-05-27T02:16:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tgdarkly.com\/blog\/?p=20"},"modified":"2004-05-26T18:16:35","modified_gmt":"2004-05-27T02:16:35","slug":"alt-worship","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/2004\/05\/26\/alt-worship\/","title":{"rendered":"Alt Worship"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an interesting discussion going on a <a title=\"Jollyblogger: The New York Times > Week in Review > Alt-Worship: Christian Cool and the New Generation Gap&#8221; href=&#8221;http:\/\/jollyblogger.typepad.com\/jollyblogger\/2004\/05\/the_new_york_ti.html#comments&#8221;>Jollyblogger<\/a> concerning the validity of seeker-sensitive and &#8220;emerging&#8221; churches.  Here&#8217;s some of what I said:  I agree that at times the medium overtakes the message in seeker type churches. That&#8217;s nothing unique to the seeker movement, though. The types of church services we&#8217;d call &#8220;traditional&#8221; are just expressions of what the popular culture of 75 or 100 years ago thought of as &#8220;church,&#8221; and for many folks, those comfortable forms have eclipsed the radical life-changing truth of the Gospel.<\/p>\n<p>Where I do have a problem with &#8220;contemporary&#8221; church movements is when they abandon theological terms that have developed meaning over time. I once heard a Pastor give an invitation during which he invited unbelievers to accept Christ as their &#8220;forgiver&#8221; and &#8220;leader.&#8221; These terms may capture some of the meaning of the terms &#8220;Savior&#8221; and &#8220;Lord,&#8221; but I don&#8217;t think they&#8217;re adequate substitutes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There&#8217;s an interesting discussion going on a<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p824rZ-B","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/davidopderbeck.com\/tgdarkly\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}