Mark Driscoll on contextualisation

(At about 45:00 through his "Why multi-site?" podcast.)  "My point in showing you this historically is that every single church is on the contextualisation continuum.  The question is not, 'Will you contextualise?', the question is, 'What is the cutting edge of the year that you are on?'"  Some of his examples based on technology in use in our church buildings are:

  • Pews: 1300s
  • Organs: 1400-1500s
  • No screens: early 1900s
  • No web site: late 1980s

There's also a really funny parody of the debate between the Reformed vs. Emerging vs. Megachurch movements at about 13:00.

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