Will Your Church Someday House a Community Theater Group?

Less than a block from the church I attend is an old church building that was built by the Methodists in the early 1900's. It must have seated around 2000 people. I can only imagine how that church had a powerful, culturally relevant impact on that culture. The church had fallen into the hands of a small, liberal denomination that could no longer support the huge building. Now a community theater group has taken over the building.

As a fifty something year old Pentecostal, I am concerned that we develop culturally relevant methods to share the Gospel with a younger generation. It is a generation that has little understanding of the church. If we don't do that, perhaps in another fifty years a theater group will get a super good buy on another building.

Earl Creps is an authority and conference speaker on church growth and evangelism. His podcast, "Walk With Me" at http://www.earlcreps.com/podcast/ is worth listening to if you have a spare half hour. He addresses how the younger generation see us, the church.