When Relevance Trumps Reverence

With the Relevance Question as the first step in our journey, our final destination is irrelevance. When relevance is our first priority we end up powered not by the Spirit of Christ, but the spirit of the age. There is a more fundamental question we must face squarely together. Before asking what relevance looks like to this or that culture (or subcultures), we must first ask “Who is the Jesus we exist to reverently worship and reflect with our lives?” Let’s call this the “Reverence Question.”