The modern church is incredibly irrelevant. It's failing. A recent Barna study showed that 80% of Christian youth will leave the faith by age 30. This catastrophic problem is riding on the back of a modern church which is splintering and fracturing the family left and right.
Kevin Swanson interviews Scott Brown - Director of the National Center for Family Integrated Churches - about a movement to move back toward a church model which encourages a unified family. Scott shares a vision for equipping fathers within the church to disciple their own families and thereby preserve the faith for generations to come.
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“ We DO need to be relevant. ” I'm glad to hear Dr. Swanson taking on the topic of the church's irrelevance in today's culture. After listening to the first part of the broadcast, though, I wonder if one of the reasons we are perpetually irrelevant is that we rant against and drag through the mud those leaders among us who are innovative, creative, and bold enough to try something new and different in the name of Christ. Though the overall crux of this message was good, I really take exception to the idea that little or no discipleship is taking place in "megachurches" with satellite campuses simply because the morning message is being piped in on a video screen. That idea seems short sighted at best, and if the only discipleship that takes place in a church comes from the Sr. Pastor then we really are in trouble of being irrelevant.
Kevin Swanson has served as elder and pastor of Reformation Church, OPC since its inception. Kevin was raised on the mission field in Japan in the 1960's and 1970's. Together with his wife Brenda, they are bringing up five children in the nurture and admonition of the Lord....
