Deserted Evie Youth

[Ed Hurst]

On the one hand, I can see why the Christian music scene is like that, Jay. So very much of what churches do follows the shape of secular culture, and it's often pretty subtle how that influence seizes control. What we get from that is just a different flavor of the secular stuff. There is apparently no real biblical moral model for them to use, so this puts a burden on us to dig in and find the better answer. Some elements are simply the nature of the thing and can't be changed, but I'm convinced there is plenty that is purely a cultural adaptation and we can do it better. The problem is that I don't have any solutions because I'm not that close to it. Maybe it waits for someone who has that calling from God to reconstruct the various elements of our faith future, to come up with a genuine biblical cultural frame of reference for the arts in religion.

But I'm definitely on board with Iain's drive to reconstruct the apprenticeship path for building better men of faith. That's sadly missing from mainstream church life.