Tuesday, October 07, 2014

Pastor Moves His Church into the 1980s!

Katy, TX--Pr. Bill Woolsey, favoring suits styled like those of Sonny Crockett and Rico Tubbs, expressed his contempt for the stagnation of his own church body, the LC-MS:
"The mainline, historical, sacramental church - a small slice of which I belong [sic.] - has been stumbling to the bottom since the 1960s," wrote Woolsey. 
The problem is clear. Woolsey says, "most of the mainline churches in my denomination spoke a language long gone." Not wanting to be out-of-date, he embraced a New terminology of "sacramental entrepreneurship:" a term that was already in use in the 90s with regard to Franscois Michelin; and was shaped by "theological entrepreneurs" among the Emergents like Mark Driscoll, Rob Bell, John Franke, Tony Jones and Doug Pagitt. Their terminology was in turn  leveraged from Bill Drayton's use of "social entrepreneurs" back the 1980s.

In order to keep things fresh with a sense of newness Woolsey founded a community with an utterly new and original name of "Crosspoint Community Church" in the late 1990s. It should not be confused with any of the following, which just by coincidence, happen to share the same name (without the "e" at the end):
 Woolsey stated: "My desire in starting CrossPoint was to create a congregation that not only spoke the language of the local lost person but also loved that person so much we could not help but speak their language and love their music and adopt as many of their values as possible."

In order to be as original as possible in adopting values of the lost persons, Woolsey has imitated Perry Noble's use of secular rock music with idolatrous themes to open his community church services.  The following list from Woolsey's church was collected by a reader named Randy (thanks)


Originality and Newness being the greatest desire Woolsey wrote: "We have become so focused on doing doctrine right that we shirk doing new."

So Woolsey's worship services are innovative and original, even Contemporvant:



Compare:

Imperfect People Wk 7 (Bill Woolsey) from crosspt media on Vimeo.

At least keeping focused on doctrine won't be an issue keeping Woolsey from moving into the 1980s Emergent movement. We're glad someone is trying to keep up with the times. 
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