The trouble with Church?

One of the huge words being thrown around in Christian circles today is the word Relevant. Are we relevant? Do people who attend our church or live in our surrounding community perceive us to be a relevant church? Trying to be relevant and being relevant are very different things. Take for example a biker. He lives and breathes motorcycles. He uses it everyday. He works on it, and it is his main form of transportation. He is not trying to be a biker...He is one. In contrast take the doctor. He is amazing at what he does. Saving lives, helping to cure the sick and dying. Coming soon is bike week in Daytona Beach, Fl. He grows a short beard, buys some distressed leather and drinks a bottle of ego and attitude. This is far from his doctor persona! One is relevant, the other is trying to be. One is real, and the other one is an imposter. Why do we try as Christians to be relevant? We are relevant in our own right. Everyone of us will be relevant and irrelevant at some point in time. I feel more often, we are becoming pop Christians. We mold and shape ourselves into a fill in the blank Christian. What do you need? Extreme Christian? Hard core rocker Christian? Real Estate investing Christian? Indie Christian? Doctor Christian? Film maker Christian? If we put Christian as a tag on what we do, it seems to make it more appealing in the church. "Hey look! He has dreadlocks, and he is a Christian! Isn't that cool?" Is it cool that he has dreadlocks and just happens to be a Christian? Or is it just cool that a peson with dreadlocks just happens to be at church? We need to get out of this pop Christian, lets make you into a nice testimony or marketing strategy for outsiders.

Lets stop using the title "Christian" like it is a decorating show. Throw paint at the wall. put something here, hang something there. In a attempt to see what works for us.

Being a Christian should NOT mean that we are in a immediate identity crisis.

What type of Christian should I be??? This subject needs to be tackled but it doesn't mean I am not disgusted by these actions. I just want to vomit thinking of the phony, fake, bubble gum Christians (come on- you know what I am talking about.....They park there car in the church parking lot and there behavior inside the car is much different than the behavior of when they enter the building- Are we that dumb that we think that God can not see us until we are in a church building???)!



Can't we just be who we are and be in love with Jesus Christ?

Isn't that being relevant? I want to see people who are the real deal, not an over produced image of something else that will get only man's attention.
God does NOT need a PR man nor a politically correct representative!