“Something Relevant”
Those are the featured words on a billboard here in our town for a new church that meets at the local movie theater every Sunday morning. The implication is that “regular” or “traditional” churches are no longer relevant to today’s culture.
I would like to offer our readers an invitation to something truly relevant: God’s Word and will for our lives as contained in the pages of scripture. While it would be foolish to imply that culture hasn’t changed in 2,000+ years, the nature and need of man has not changed. The God Who created us knows that and gave us everything we need within the pages of His book (2 Tim. 3:16-17).
When you read the New Testament, you read of people who struggled with pride (Matthew 20:20-22), fear (Matthew 14:30; Luke 19:20-22), sexual sin (1 Corinthians 5), unsteady moral compasses, lying, greed and a host of other temptations we face today. Were the modes of delivery different? Yes! Was the struggle any less real? No!
Friends, we do not have to change the “perfect law of liberty” that God revealed to us in the New Testament in order to be relevant. In fact, to imply that we do is to imply that God needs our help! He has given us what we need and the method with which to share it with others: “And Jesus came and said to them, ‘All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go therefore and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, to the end of the age’” (Matthew 28:18-20).
One of the saddest verses in the New Testament to me is found in Matthew 7:22-24. I am so afraid, that in an effort to prove themselves relevant to the world around them, some well-meaning, good-hearted people will hear those dreaded words.
God is relevant. He always has been and always will be.
“You turn things upside down! Shall the potter be regarded as the clay, that the thing made should say of its maker, ‘He did not make me’; or the thing formed say of him who formed it, ‘He has no understanding’?” (Isaiah 29:16)
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