It is difficult to find a more controversial subject among today’s Christians than the “cool church”. Is it acceptable for a church to be confused for a bar? Is it permissible for pastors to use coarse, street language? Should the church speak the world’s language to convert the world into church? These important questions demand answers. If they are unclear to us, we will soon be swallowed by the “cool church”. Although it is not my intent, I am prepared to step on some toes with this post. If you were an enemy of the Church and was committed to its destruction, how would you go about it? If you were to bring it down, would it not be an advantage to carry out this mission quietly? How about allowing it to exist, and even flourish, but changing its goals, methods and identity? Wouldn’t the goal be accomplished if a church hardly resembled what it was intended to be, yet falsely thought that it was a model of Christ’s Church? Would it not be ideal if the church was swallowed by the surrounding world, but continued to think that the world had been absorbed into the church? Unfortunately, the enemy ...