Engage the culture...or be transformed?

Thought? is the contemporary church more interested in engaging our culture than being transformed by God's presence? Have we lost having actual spiritual weight and exchanged it for a empty experience and clever gimmicks. Where is the line between being relevant and being a parlor for cheap tricks? What good are getting them to the church "building" but never building the church by giving them the opportunity to be transformed in the likeness of Christ.

Could it be that if we, the church, lived more and more like Christ that the culture would notice the changes in US and not so much the changes in church from 50 years ago. Could that in and of itself attract this post-church culture?

Let's think for a moment about....O i don't know...McDonalds! When you buy a happy meal for your kid's...you get a meal and a cheap toy. Now, when you are a child, the toy is what it's all about! It's the reason you want to go to McDonalds. (That and the plastic fantasy world in the parking lot). But, as mature adults, as the parents, you are more concerned with your child eating the food for nurishment. Why...they need food to help them grow. Not cheap toys. If we continue to only offer cheap toys to our culture and not nurishment, how will they grow?

Just a thought...not an easy one...'cause i really like cheap toys.