Recipe bringing youth back to church

More from the SMH - - their obession with the megachurch movement is only rivalled by the constant monitoring of the Sydney Anglicans. Quite an interesting news angle considering The Courier-Mail (going Tabloid in March) almost wholly fails to cover any religious issues at all (though this is not too much of a disappointment cosidering their latest leading articles is that the Federal government is - shock! horror! taxing superannuation! Stop Press!). Anyway, back to the gushy, capitalist, anti-intellectual megachurches:

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Populist forms are often derided by the elites found in theological faculties of mainstream seminaries, and by Samuel Kobia. Populist forms these days tend to be more energetic in worship style, using more modern music and advanced electronic media presentations. This is more in keeping with the trend away from reason-based and cerebral forms of Christianity focused on logically crafted sermons to more experiential and charismatic forms. No Bach cantatas, Bruckner motets or hymns more ancient than modern will be found here.

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