Yet another church fad?
“Evangelicalism is coming to point where the early church has become the newest staple of its diet.”
~D.H. Williams, professor of patristics and historical theology at Baylor University.
Experts say most who have taken on such practices have grown disillusioned with the contemporary, shopping-center feel of the megachurches embraced by baby boomers, with their casually dressed ministers and rock-band praise music.
Instead, evangelicals — many of them young — are adopting a trend that has come to be known as “worship renewal” or “ancient-future worship.”
Feeling Renewed by Ancient Traditions (as highlighted by Mollie Hemingway at Get Religion)
So it’s news that people are returning to ancient church practices. I think this is a wonderful development, as long as it isn’t yet another fad.
If we don’t use this opportunity to teach and to keep these people, we deserve what we get when they leave.