Five healthy moves for conservative churches today:
a) Have wide doors for entrance into the church with narrow theological paradigms. Make the standard for entrance low (basic creedal commitment), but state that the congregation upholds high theological commitments.
b) Move away from team-led music in the Church. If you wish to build a corpus of orthodoxy, the music will shape the imagination of the body; theology will be embraced through lyrics. This can only function if the central instrument of the church is the congregation.
c) Build environments for informal and formal men’s gatherings where stories are shared and men can be men around good drinks. These will create better husbands and more committed churchmen.
d) Have a selected body of literature to give to newcomers, or guide them to healthy podcasts. Give them something to grab onto as they grow in their faithfulness. A church must have a shared theological corpus.
e) Make Sunday the day without which the faith crumbles. Treat, exhort, and invigorate the body to cherish Sunday above all other days. Teach them that the decision to be at church on Sunday is one made once in a lifetime, not on Saturday nights.
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