Squeezing Jello, part two

From my perspective, the desire feeding the emergent thinking is relevancy -- making the church relevant to a modern world. Obviously, the question is, "How do we do that?" While that is a good question, it is not the one that should begin the evaluation process. Let's go back a little further and ask, "Why isn't the church relevant?" James Spurgeon has an answer (note: he is not Charles Spurgeon! He is a present day writer and pastor):

One of the reasons the church is so cold and dead and lifeless is because she has lost her love for God. Instead of replacing that with something fleshly to appeal to fleshly men, we need to get back to our first love—God—and knowing him. For those out there looking for ways to make church more relevant, how about this idea? How about giving it depth and authenticity by focusing on something beyond mere human experience, by helping human beings to lift their eyes upward and see something greater than anything there is to offer here below? How about making church relevant by making it separate from the ordinary, a holy place, where, get this, God himself is exalted and expounded upon and worshiped. How about offering to the public, not just relevancy, but depth and authenticity through theology and application to the life of faith and worship?

Don't you think that would eliminate much of the "jello-problem"?