A really interesting ‘parody(?)’ of contemporary worship events and services.

This brings up some very interesting points. Is there anything necessarily wrong in this video? No – but I believe worship services and events should flow out of value conversations and content talks, not be constructed flat packed from Ikea-styled copycat methods. This is how the world does it: start with the flash and work your way down to the content. We must start from needs and content and drive the style from what we find.

The flat pack may have worked over the last couple of decades where the church just started getting enough umpth to compete with secular market styles. Young people today however, are searching for authenticity – not flash. They can smell a rat. They can see right through the flash, and anything we give them like this can be gotten from a million other places.

I have no problem at all with services or events that look like this, I’ve run a fair few! As long as they follow on naturally from the values, aims, and authentic needs of the people they are serving.

I’ve got another post on this somewhere – will post the link when I find it.