The Kind of Relevance That Actually Makes a Difference

Spend time in conversation with just about any Christian and the importance of relevance is bound to come up. Years ago I was at a church where relevance was one of the key areas of focus when it came to ministry.

And before you start throwing stones at how awful that is, consider the other options, irrelevance. What’s worse: trying to be relevant and failing, or just being irrelevant?

I don’t think being relevant is the problem.

It’s how we get there.

A few months ago I helped launch a couples g...