A friend  wrote in message .

If you have not seen Sheep Comics before they are worth a look. This one is on music styles …………….

http://www.sheepcomics.com/strips/Divide/Divide.htm

And yet, and yet… the reality is that we live in a commercially-driven consumer culture, with sub-cultures (and their distinctive music tastes)

multiplying with each generation…

On Sunday I preached all day at Swanston St. Church of Christ, Melbourne. Over 1,000 people at three services, in a part of Melbourne where it’s most difficult to find a car parking spot in the street (and then, for only two hours at most). They must be doing something right, eh? Yes, reaching GenX’ers, most of them University students, and most of those Asian-born, with their particular music-style, and a cheap meal after the 6 pm service etc.

Between Sundays we shop in boutiques which cater for our particular needs. (Richard Rohr’s definition of a boutique: ‘It’s a shop that sells nothing you need’).

But the key point of the cartoons, as I read them, is that *relating* to one another and relating theology/Bible to life is more important than the appurtenances – musical and other – that go with Sunday worship experiences…

Point taken.

Rowland Croucher

4th November 2003.