Ben Pettit

The contemporary church is not for everyone but yes they do have a purpose. I’ve been involved with 4 contemporary churches in the past 5 years. I graduate in a week from today. I was thinking for so long that I wanted to work in a contemporary church. Here are my complaints and why I may not be working in one.

Every contemporary church is different in what they believe in terms of theology (You never know what your going to get).

Some contemporary churches believe tithing is an old testament thing. (Yeah… well they are dead wrong… read the bible for gosh sakes).

There is no association with other churches. No external support except from it’s families and people internally (A few churches may bind together, maybe).

The modern contemporary church is pushing to use a rock band and I play rock music… that fits right? My only problem is, aren’t we suppose to be worshiping the God of the universe? I mean why does it just have to be a rock band? What’s wrong with an orchestra? What’s wrong with pipe organ. I sat in UMC of Asheville, NC last Sunday and we worshiped with an organ postlude that made you want to strap on a gun and charge the gates of hell. Have we really brought ourselves to this point where all we do is listen to loud music and call it “praise and worship”? This is hard for me to say because YES I like loud overdriven guitar. I just am not completely convinced that every church needs to be doing this (your saying “duh” Ben, but yeah look at how many church plants think they need it).

In closing I will say this. Do church. Do it well. If you worship with a keyboard and organ every Sunday. Make it the best keyboard and organ sound you can. Make your transitions between worship elements flawless and seamless. Traditional is not bad. For you KJV churches, yes your a little crazy, but my Grandfather told me once that hearing the word read in KJV was just comforting to him.

Set goals. Cast vision. Run as hard as you can with what you got until you get somewhere. Don’t stand still, ever.