This post is part of Watercooler Wednesday, a creative think-tank which gathers weekly for conversation at Randy Elrod's Ethos blog. Check out Randy's latest WCW post HERE.
I had a lot of time to read while traveling to and from Romania last week. I could hardly stop reading my brand new ESV New Testament. I love this version. I underlined tons of scripture that I had memorized or was familiar with.
I also was able to read "Pop Goes The Church" by Tim Stevens, from beginning to end. I thoroughly enjoyed the read. If you go to the Pop Goes The Church website, you can read Chapter 4 - A Tale of Five Churches. Basically, Tim lists a set of five choices which every church has about how to deal with pop culture surrounding our churches: 1. Condemn; 2. Separate; 3. Embrace; 4. Ignore; 5. Leverage.
You probably don't even need to read Chapter 4 to determine the answers to these questions:
- Which one of these choices describes your church's response to pop culture?
- How about your own personal response to pop culture...do you imitate pop culture, or are you creating culture?
Take a minute right now to check out Tim's "Leading Smart" blog. It's one my top 5. He posted an article recently called "Why Pop Culture Is No Longer Popular" which in some ways seems to refute the premise of his own book. Great post and lots of good comments.
