The Thirsty Theologian Fad-Driven® Beans guy loves to read from the Geneva Bible and the NKJV MacArthur Study Bible...ought to tell you something about his 'approach' towards creativity progress... Wonder where the ESV plays into this approach?

The problem with his ideas trying to address the 'Fad-Driven' Church is that he hasn't taken a look at everything else around him...schools, specifically higher education and distance learning, successful businesses; society no longer operates in the 1950's and there are those (like him) that fight tooth and nail write up well intentioned ideas to keep the body of Christ from progressing into the 21st century...maybe he should consider the Quakers, they've got him beat at his own game, staying stuck in the past and forcing their method of life on some contrived Godly requirement. (I love the Quakers by the way).

Now, coffeeswirls says: "Thirsty Theologian, discussed the recent addition of Fad-Driven® Beans to his town. This was one post that I couldn’t pass up as it involved two topics that are important to me: the dignity of the church and the dignity of coffee. He discussed the ways that this church is willing to conform to whatever the wishes are of the local population to get as many people to attend as possible. Wanting to reach more people is not a bad thing on its own, but often this will result in the message being compromised."

What? That's a HUGE leap to say "...this will result in the message being compromised." These guys are the same guys who said that a digitally driven world could never produce music, or movies, and computers would never run a successful business, it had to be done by hand, "THE WAY IT ALWAYS WAS." Guess they haven't gone to a movie or listed to any music lately where 99.5% (or some higher percentage) of this art form is computer driven. Try to run a business today without a computer!

When things change there will always be old traditional folk who just don't get it, don't want to change, (I'd love to know how old these guys are, or rather how educated, they both have blogs which tells me they understand the importance of a world with computers, yet they are trying to stop the Church from the same positive and creative progress...?) fighting to keep their own comfort zone fully protected from change. Sorry, but I serve a CREATIVE GOD who is NOT STUCK in MAN'S tradition or limited by fear of change. Creativity is always about change and serving a creative GOD = change which equates to eventual progress. Deal with change and creativity and you're gaining a better understanding of who GOD really is.

Coffeeswirls also says: "I have no problem with people who want to sing newer songs over traditional hymns or what have you, just as long as the singing is rightly directed toward the recipient of our praise and worship and not at ourselves."

WOW! What about looking at this from a 'different' angle? What about those folks who find 'traditional hymns' so boring and out of touch that their minds wonder during the hymn service contemplating how 'the recipient' could be so starchy stiff that HE wouldn't also be bored out of His creativity as well...

Now worship is a matter of the heart, I get that. I'm just addressing this argument with coffeeswirls same logic, which really is not that cool. God, loves worship, old and new, traditional, new fangled, contemporary, spirit filled, the point is who are these traditionalists, (mere men) trying to slow down a system/society that was designed by GOD to constantly progress, heal itself, learn-fail-learn from failure; it's called progress and it's necessary for the creativity of life and the worship of GOD.

I honestly respect and love both these guys for sharing their opinions and hope my post is an iron sharpening iron challenge towards progress and building up.

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