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**Trikaduliana** · 09-14-2006, 12:55 AM

I think the churches' attemps to make themselves relevant is exactly the reason they are rejected as irrelevant by many people. If religion can offer me nothing more than the secular society, what relevance does it have for me?

I agree entirely and this is one reason why I am no longer an Evangelical.

But I think that Orthodox communities do need to find ways of communicating which are relevant. Indeed some of the ways the ethnic communities communicate patently fails to communicate the right message.

If the only language I can worship in is Greek or Church Slavonic then this communicates something, perhaps unintended.

So the challenge is to communicate the riches of our faith in a way that really communicates, and is relevant, so that we can gain further opportunities to help people develop and grow into the depths of Orthodoxy that are not so easily grasped from a first or second or tenth encounter.

Unfortunately if our faith is presented in a way that is not relevant then we may not get a second opportunity.

Peter Theodore Farrington

09-14-2006, 12:55 AM	#27
Trikaduliana Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 507 Senior Member	I think the churches' attemps to make themselves relevant is exactly the reason they are rejected as irrelevant by many people. If religion can offer me nothing more than the secular society, what relevance does it have for me? I agree entirely and this is one reason why I am no longer an Evangelical. But I think that Orthodox communities do need to find ways of communicating which are relevant. Indeed some of the ways the ethnic communities communicate patently fails to communicate the right message. If the only language I can worship in is Greek or Church Slavonic then this communicates something, perhaps unintended. So the challenge is to communicate the riches of our faith in a way that really communicates, and is relevant, so that we can gain further opportunities to help people develop and grow into the depths of Orthodoxy that are not so easily grasped from a first or second or tenth encounter. Unfortunately if our faith is presented in a way that is not relevant then we may not get a second opportunity. Peter Theodore Farrington
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