If the evangelical Christian leadership thinks that “cool Christianity” is a sustainable path forward, they are severely mistaken. As a twentysomething, I can say with confidence that when it comes to church, we don’t want cool as much as we want real.
If we are interested in Christianity in any sort of serious way, it is not because it’s easy or trendy or popular. It’s because Jesus himself is appealing, and what he says rings true. It’s because the world we inhabit is utterly phony, ephemeral, narcissistic, image-obsessed and sex-drenched—and we want an alternative. It’s not because we want more of the same.
—Brett McCracken, author of Hipster Christianity, in the Wall Street Journal
August 13, 2010 at 2:54 pm
FWIW .. I think he’s somewhat mistaken when he talks about the evangelical Christian leadership.
Emerging perhaps, progressive definitely, but I fully believe that any evangelical Christian would agree with the second quoted paragraph.
August 13, 2010 at 9:08 pm
I like this guy!