2. Counter-Cultural Works
If you were a consultant, advisor or leader advising an upstart church plant on how to reach people in left-leaning Seattle in 1996, you likely would not have said “Target men in their twenties with a hyper-conservative version of the Gospel.”
But it did.
Love it or hate it, Mars Hill targeted young men stuck in an ever-extending adolescence and called them faith and to responsibility. That direction changed the lives of thousands of young men and many current and future families.
That’s a pretty amazing legacy and it shows you don’t need to cave to a culture to reach a culture.
The Christian message has always been counter-cultural. And whether you agree with the exact expression it took at Mars Hill or not, the Mars Hill story is a wake up call to the local church.
Don’t be afraid to be counter-cultural. It’s never held the church back in the past. It doesn’t need to in the future.
