A Need for Balance

Churches must be, as Ed Stetzer says in Planting Missional Churches, Biblically faithful and culturally relevant. In the latest church planting movement we have often abandoned Biblical truths and expectations. We have masked that with the cloak of "cultural relevance". We must maintain a solid theology. There are things we just can't compromise. Too many churches are offering people a "quick fix" instead of a long-term solution. Jesus isn't a band-aid. God wants control of you and wants to wreck the old way you think and act. He wants to develop you into the person He intended you to be. Churches have to help people catch of vision of who they could be, not who they are. Then they have to equip them to move toward that vision.