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Postmodern Church Birthed in Austin

I stumbled on this article today. I think it does a great job of getting at some of the issues the church faces today. Increasingly, today’s 20’s and 30’s crowd are not going to church because they don’t fit in. I think this article speaks for itself. Would you invite ANY new believer to your church?

The worship experience, which lasted from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m., provided opportunities for the youth to build community, view artwork displayed around the atrium, read poetry aloud in one of the church’s many parlors or sit and meditate in one of the church’s small chapels.

“If normal methods don’t work, then maybe we need to try non-traditional methods,” he said. “For sure, if the church doesn’t provide it, then they’ll go to New Age or some other ideology.”

“When I was 17 years old and a new Christian, I started going out on the streets to share Jesus using donuts, coffee and a pile of tracts,” Jones said. “I was just like a fundamentalist preacher. But I figured I couldn’t bring the first person I led to Christ to church.

“Then as time went on, I met other people, brought them to church and they didn’t like it either. So then the question became, ‘What are we going to do with them?’”

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