from Dick Staub: "The fear of irrelevance is palpable in the evangelical church...any means is justifiable to reach a target audience as long as it is followed by a simple gospel presentation. To reach an edgy audience, so the argument goes, one must employ edgy means. The problem is not the proverbial "them." It's us. Marty O;Donnell, one of the creators of Halo and himself a Christian agrees... Once again (I believe) the modern evangelical church has misinterpreted Christ’s injunction to be “fishers of men”.
Having Halo night at the local church building is about the same as having ultimate frizzbee night. I would prefer to see youth pastors and other Christians seeking people out wherever they happen to be rather than trying to get “kids into the building” so they can give them the good news. When Jesus spoke to the woman at the well it wasn’t some sort of “bait and switch”. The Church is the body of Christ not a building…"
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