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\nMany Christians hope to speak to generation X or Y or postmoderns, or some subgroup, like cowboys or bikers\u2014people for whom the typical church seems irrelevant.<\/span><\/p>\nEugene Peterson: <\/strong>
\nWhen you start tailoring the gospel to the culture, whether it\u2019s a youth culture, a generation culture or any other kind of culture, you have taken the guts out of the gospel. The gospel of Jesus Christ is not the kingdom of this world. It\u2019s a different kingdom\u2026. I think relevance is a crock. I don\u2019t think people care a whole lot about what kind of music you have or how you shape the service. They want a place where God is taken seriously, where they\u2019re taken seriously, where there is no manipulation of their emotions or their consumer needs. Why did we get captured by this advertising, publicity mindset? I think it\u2019s destroying our church.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"More from the CT interview with Eugene Peterson:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1051,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[95],"class_list":["post-18802","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-eugene-peterson"],"yoast_head":"\n
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