Truth has become relevant -Great Quote

"It will cost something to walk slow in the parade of the ages, while excited men of time rush about confusing motion with progress. But it will pay in the long run and the true Christian is not much interested in anything short of that." A.W. Tozer 1950


This has been on my mind a lot in the last year or two. Not because of it in the world although it is but because I see it in the Church. The church has started to become as relevant (strike that) more relevant than the world. I will use music for an example because its what I spend a lot of my time doing. The reason the majority of Christian music sucks today is become we as Christians have become relevant. Christian music historically has created new sounds, new genres, new trends and now all we do is copy the world and hope we don't get it too late to be relevant to culture. We have to sound like whats hot because whats hot sells. Well this theory has been proven wrong because Christian music is on the fastest decline ever. When we as Christians lose the one thing that makes us we lose all our flavor. I really believe the world is seeking absolutes but no one is walking in it. Most of the world knows their screwed up and need something greater than themselves but we aren't showing them that. They look at the church and it appears their staring into a mirror. Christianity has become relevant to culture because we desire to be accepted. We seek this worldly acceptance because we are not comfortable with who God made us and what hes called us to. When you cannot accept that God has made you a Bluebird you strive to be a redbird because redbirds are in season so what happens is everyone paints themselves as redbirds to fit in. Then God comes looking for his bluebird because thats what the world needs and its time and its nowhere to be found. This is what is happening. God is looking for a people who will not be persuaded by the systems of the world but by the desires of a Fathers heart 2Chronicles 16:9. We live in the tension of the Reality of Heaven and the so called reality of this world. When we start desiring more Heaven on earth (Luke 2-4) and stop living according to the culture we will change the culture around us.

This quote is so perfect for this....