Vineyard Church of Knox County
On Cultural Relevance
Sermon Audio from Sunday, October 5, 2003 — In terms of information alone, George Barna notes, "We now have only 3 percent of the information that will be available to us by 2010." Someone has said that, currently, the amount of information doubles every five years! Obviously, all this change has and will continue to deeply affect our culture. And the church is called to minister to that changing culture.
We must be willing to stay current in our message and our approach to ministry if we are to be an effective tool for expanding God's kingdom in the world today. Malphurs believes, "The cultural leap from the unchurched community to most American churches is too vast. Consequently," he urges us in the church, "our planted churches must be culturally relevant if they're to reach this and future unchurched generations for the Savior. They must be relevant when they begin, and they must remain relevant."
