Bi-Polar
A thought hit me during our worship service this morning. I wonder if people see my church as bi-polar, or a split personality, and if that's disconcerting to them.

We are a more progressive church of Christ. We have a "blended" style of worship service -- we mix traditional things with contemporary things when we put together our worship assemblies. (For example, we have lots of crucifixes hanging around, but we still have the traditional communion table; we sing both traditional songs and contemporary songs.)

Today really stood out, because one of our more traditionally-minded members was speaking at communion, and said something that would have fit right in with a traditional church of Christ (referencing a very old interpretation of a particular Scripture passage), but then we turned right around and participated in something that involved a more modern/contemporary interpretation of the same passage of Scripture.

There have to be other "contemporary" churches of Christ out there that have this same thing going on, since churches of Christ are typically so heavily steeped in their tradition and older methods of interpreting Scripture. On the one hand, we have blended assemblies, utilizing thoughts and methods from both the traditional and contemporary, so that we can celebrate in our diversity and bring all people and things together under the One God.

But I have to wonder what kind of effect this split personality (of sorts) has on our regular church attenders, and if it is at all disconcerting or even detrimental to our church- and Christ-seeking guests.

Any thoughts from the blogosphere?