Vintage

A new worship gathering was launched last night at our church intentionally targeting the emerging generation. This began as a dream a year ago, fueled by the desire to reach out to a growing population here (more so in the summer months) of young adults.

I'm a baby boomer. Consequently the amazing growth in our church has been mostly due to the attractiveness of our worship style, teaching, programs for youth and children and facilities. Our "contemporary" church hits a home run with my generation.

But my generation is growing older and the fact is that the church in general is not cutting it in reaching out to generation X. The culture they've grown up in isn't the America of our fathers. So their opinions of the church and "Christianity" are different. Yet they can be and must be reached with the ancient message in a relevant fashion.

That they've asked me to be the primary teacher in this gathering just underscores the name Vintage! But last night we started with 25 young adults. Free pizza! Our band covered songs by Switchfoot, Delirious? and The Foo Fighters. (Don't ask me. But the songs were great!) We looked at Daniel 1 and talked about the tension between God being fair or God being just. Our theme in Daniel is "Heroes". Here's the video we produced and used last night.

We're looking for God to do something new and great.

Today I'm shopping for a pair of crocs and camo shorts. Just trying to be relevant.