The Modern Church in a Postmodern World. If it doesn't change, he says, the church will become obsolete, like the eight-track tape. They were extremely popular in the late 1960s. To that point, open-reel tape players were the norm. By the time most of us bought an 8-track tape player, cassette tape was hitting the market, promising to be the magnetic tape medium of choice.
History attests that cassette tape become the industry norm.
Eight-track tapes and players became the major hot items at thousands of yard sales. If you asked someone born after 1970 about 8-track tapes, they wouldn't know what you were talking about. They might think you're talking about some new four-wheel drive vehicle. He couldn't possibly be right . . . The analogy I have been using in church and pastor's conferences is an expressway model.