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Cultural irrelevant or cultural relevant.

I don't think it is fair to say that the church is in crisis right now. When we don't know what to say we should say the same thing that we were saying 2000 years ago. Whether the message seems to be irrelevant, or relevant for the 21st-century, The message should not change, but should be brought forth a new power and authority according to what the word of God teaches. We are not telling you to preach a new gospel, that would be no gospel at all. What we are saying determines the outcome of how the culture will view the church which in my opinion is irrelevant. The church has tried for years to conform to society in not being an offense to those who do not yet believe. But the current crisis demands that we continue to preach what was being preached by the early disciples and apostles of Jesus Christ. Cultural irrelevance should be our motto now and until Christ returns which could be at any moment for his bride the church.  Scripture should be our guide and our course of action in every church that claims the name of Jesus Christ. Without the Bible we are powerless we do things in our own strength. To preach a sermon with conviction means that we need to continue to abide in the word of God. This is what is relevant to the church.

Without Bible relevance behind our pews we will need stronger leaders in order to bring us to conformity to the word and the will of God. Stronger leaders commanding that we be disciples of Jesus Christ may be what is necessary for us to continue to remain a relevance within our own society. Thank you Lord that you provide us with those leaders and disciples who are claiming and proclaiming the word of Christ and all of our churches. We need not only to submit to their leadership but we need to conform our lives continually onto the word of God. We have hope, now.

It doesn't matter what the outside world continues to do the gospel will never go on satisfied unless we first stop preaching what the Bible tells us we need to preach and that is Jesus Christ and him crucified.  As history rolls on it's merry little way, The confession that we need to be continually proclaiming is that Jesus Christ is Lord and that he is not only Soverign  but in control of even the sin that is happening in our world right now. Nothing can keep us from Christ and as we continually make the Bible relevant within our own minds and within our own hearts, we will see the fruit of our faithfulness and loyalty to the church of Jesus Christ as servants and his disciples of the church. Let us go on conforming ourselves to the image of Christ, and as servants teaching preaching and admonishing one another to press on toward the upward call the high calling of Christ likeness.

The world may be heading in the wrong direction, but we do not need to lose heart. We need to continue to press on to maturity and call those who are lost unto repentance and salvation. Do not be conformed to this world but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, says the Bible so we better get to work church let's renew our minds to be in conformity to the will of God. And thank God for those preachers were preaching the word in season and out of season. This is Mike.

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