I have been thinking about this myself lately and not because we are going powerpoint at Eliot! We have a good number of very traditional Christians in our ranks. They are folks who would, in many ways, be more comfortable with the theology of an evangelical church. I think that they come because of the very issue your linked person complains about. The absence of Bible-preaching and over-dependence on the rosier aspects of Christianity.

Eliot, on the other hand, is welcoming and Biblical. They know they do not have to agree with me and they appreciate, I think, the central place we give the scriptures on Sunday Morn. Anyway, this is just a thought. We aren’t terribly trendy and yet we do not seem to have any trouble attracting young families (or old ones either). I tend, therefore, to give little creedence to “contemporary” worship (as if ours isn’t). I am not against it, but I do not see how my congregation would benefit from it…