Does The Apostolic Message Need Re-Packaging????
 

I was listening to Kenneth Phillips preach at the AWCF Conference, and he mentioned that it was time to re-package the Apostolic message.

I know that manufacturers of products upgrade their product packaging to reflect the current tastes and customs. For instance, Betty Crocker was changed from the 40's and 50's look into a more modern looking women.

As new ways to package items are invented, successful companies will try to upgrade their packaging. Colas and Ketchup used to always be packaged in glass bottles, but now they mostly use plastic packaging.

Is it time to re-package the Apostolic message?

Yep.

Doesn't mean the message will change - just like colas, ketchup and Betty Crocker products - - the product stays the same, but the packaging changes.

Coke tried to change the product and it didn't make it - failed miserably.

The packaging is everything. Just ask advertising companies,a nd consumers. The Apostolic message should remain forever the same, but the packaging is not conducive to our culture nor our times.

I agree! Unfortunately, the ones calling for a packaging change are seen as rebels instead of prophets!

It's hard to change the paradigm - especially if you are afraid of losing profit shares.

LOL!! You just wait until the "gimme that old time religion that was good enough for Grampa and its good enough for me..." crowd gets here!

I agree that it needs to be repackaged, but not only that, the delivery system is still in the vacuum tube era. What is even more funny is that there are old timers out there preaching how that we have taken PA systems too far by adding two and three hand held microphones!

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The ones standing in their long robes looking down their long noses over the desk at those below and pointing fingers at those rebels are worried because to them change is equivalent to compromise.

The song says, ONWARD Christian Soldiers, not Stand FIRM in tradition Christian Soldiers. :D

Any specifics? How do you repkg a belief system? Newer buildings? Maybe an emphasis on displaying the fruits of the Spirit could be considered repackaging. Interesting.

How about a time of corporate and severe fasting and prayer to determine what traditions have been moved into the realm of the sovereign and salvational.

To me, re-packaging means finding ways to make the Apostolic message more attractive to the newer generations. This could relate to music, audio-visual, and the use of new technology to promote the message.