When things are changing this rapidly in the culture, it’s critical that church leaders develop approaches that respond just as quickly. Any gap that emerges between the outdated methods of church leaders and the changing pace of culture produces one thing: irrelevance. Rather than seeing this as an obstacle that’s difficult to surmount, try to see this as an opportunity. The first-century church formed and spread rapidly in an environment that was more hostile to Christianity than the one the early twenty-first century offers.
