In Los Angeles we are finding that an alarming number of our established churches may be geographically close but they are culturally too distant to attract many of our neighbors into our buildings and retain them as members.  So we are stepping outside our churched culture to live among the ones who will never be reached by our established churches.  Rather than trying to attract them to our churches to sing our hymns and follow Christ in ways that make sense to us culturally, we are trying to attract others to Jesus …and in the process our role is to coach new believers to form their churches, compose their songs, and follow the Risen Lord in ways that make sense in their cultures.

Categories: Christian culture, culture