When you see their youtube subscriber page and read what they believe a Church service is for, then the sad sad story below is not surpising at all:
“At Relevant, we feel that it’s our responsibility to clear the way for you to come to church. We want you to be able to experience the great music, encouraging messages, friendly people and enjoyable atmosphere that are a part of Relevant. And, we know that your first time at any church brings up some questions. How do I get there… what should I wear… what’s available for my kids… what should I expect in church? If that’s you…check out www.relevantchurch.com“
Nothing in there about coming to Church to give honor and glory to God, to be taught God’s Word, nothing about Good Doctrine! Its all about the Sensual Experience! and their name says it all: Relevant! What they do not realize is that the more a Church attempts to be relevant the more it makes itself irrelevant! As relevancy is a transient part of a fallen temporal world!
You cannot take an eternal message and trim it down to fit into temporal relevance! To be relevant in our society today means you must worship sex and the sensual. If you try to shoehorn an eternal message into such an ideology that is diametrically opposed to the fundamentals of that eternal message, then you destroy the eternal message!
2 Timothy 3:1-9:
But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away! For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts, always learning and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth. Now as Jannes and Jambres resisted Moses, so do these also resist the truth: men of corrupt minds, disapproved concerning the faith; but they will progress no further, for their folly will be manifest to all, as theirs also was.
Their video trailer for the challenge:
A pastor has a new challenge for his parishioners. It involves sex – a subject that may be taboo in many congregations.
The Relevant Church in Tampa’s Ybor City has issued a 30-day sex challenge.
“It’s going to be tempting and awkward at the same time for sure,” said parishioner Brent Cayson.
Single men and women can’t have sex for 30 days, and married couples are urged to have it every day.
“If you look at studies, studies say in 30 days you can develop a habit,” said Pastor Paul Wirth.
It definitely caught wives in the church by surprise.
“Our married people are far more fearful than our single people,” said Wirth.
“Sex is about more than intercourse and that’s what we’re trying to tell people,” said church member Jarret Haas.
Wirth has found biblical references that he says suggest Jesus disapproved of pre-marital sex and promoted sex in marriage. So, he believes people connect to God through life-long commitment.
That’s why he tells his single followers to abstain, and his married followers to indulge.
Wirth is a former Baptist. He founded his non-denominational ministry three years ago. And he markets his church by tackling unusual or controversial topics.
a couple things that catch my eye – first from the Fox News article:
“Wirth found a biblical reference that he says suggests Jesus disapproved of pre-marital sex and promoted sex in marriage.”
Like this guy is the first to discover that Jesus taught against pre-marital sex?? “Wirth” found it?? That’s funny.
[b]Single[/b] men and women can’t have sex for 30 days? What kind of church are they running there? Are they normally encouraged to go for it?
Then this quote:
“Sex is about more than intercourse and that’s what we’re trying to tell people,” said church member Jarret Haas.
LOL – I was going to make a joke here about rocket science, but I just signed the “Sarcasm Reduction Act” a few months ago.
Shock and titillate – that’s a sad way to promote one’s church.
Relevant Church BTW is part of the Emergent Church cult movement.
our churches are becoming like the ones mentioned in 2 Timothy 4:3-4 and I am sick of it.
2 Timothy 4:3-4
For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.
They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths.
This is nuts! And at the bottom of the Article a member and his Fiancee is going to participate in the challenge! Last time I check engaged does not mean that your married and if you having sex and your not married thats pre marital sex!
saw this at:
http://www.sliceoflaodicea.com/?p=360
and it more than likely is right at how bad at our churches are becoming
It Won’t Be Long Now…
It is only a matter of time before we see couples in bed, “on stage”, in churches to celebrate sex.
Two years ago I predicted that we would have the equivalent of pagan temple prostitutes in evangelical churches.
Except in church, it will be married couples (for now) demonstrating it all in public.
You’ve been warned.
The clip from YouTube below a promo for Revolution Church’s sex campaign last summer.
(One of hundreds of churches engaged in this sort of thing.) I give it 3-5 years before we have the real thing in church somewhere.
http://www.sliceoflaodicea.com/?p=360