There was a Church here that at one time was doing WWF smack down for Christ.
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Jesus took our Sins. The legalist can’t control you if that gets out
There was a Church here that at one time was doing WWF smack down for Christ.
There is a lot of truth in that article.
I think the problem can be boiled down to trying to reach people where they are, when in fact the whole point is to worship God. It’s as if people think that The Son of God is not attractive enough to people so they have to entertain them.
If we focus on our relationship with Jesus, as individuals and as a Christian community, and let Him show forth in our lives, the pews will be full (which they are, by the way, in Arizona).
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The Church is the body of born-again believers around the world, not the individual church building or denomination - the Bible says that nothing will prevail against it. The little-c church will fall when it no longer follows Biblical principles, but the Body of Christ will overcome.
Nope, the last one I dropped in to just had a 5 piece band and a video screen high and to their right.......
The Baptist church I attended before that didn't even have a standing crucifix.........When I asked my friend about that, he of course had a prepared church statement why they didn't.
And Pastor Bob gave me the creeps.......
I'm still looking..........
I’m done with churches with segregated services - traditional and “contemporary.” It is a travesty of the highest order.
Many churches are just club houses....................
Supercool rock band church.
Slightly off topic but how much is “ too much Tylenol “ ?? Enough to cause liver failure?
I’ve never heard of such a thing.
I’ve mentioned it before here on FR on various threads, but my brother attends a mega church here in Illinois called Willow Creek. They are not allowed to mention the word “sin” as it may turn off their patrons “ie costumers” , they are all “pro choice”, the church is closed on Christmas, and they’ve had Bill Clinton out there several times as a guest speaker (and Dick Durban as well). This church is MASSIVE. The cops have to direct traffic on Sundays. I mean MASSIVE as in more parking then the Allstate Arena or Soldier Field, and the lot is full on Sundays.
They get bands there, entertainment, etc, but don’t mention the word “sin”.
Jesus Christ and His being crucified for our sins are no longer taught in churches. Feel good about yourself is. I know one church who teaches teen-age girls how to cook.
All that stuff about crucification, is, like, gross, man, we want something amazing, incredible and unbelievable, like Justin, what his name!
Stop me if you’ve heard this one:
A rabbi, a mufti and a Scientologist walk into a church...
The charismatics have infiltrated our church and have taken control of the music every other week. I don’t go to church to be ool; therefore, I don’t need Guitar Zhero from the choir loft. I hope our new bishop stifles them.
Self-esteem is what 2013 considers spiritual feeding.
Quite an article, though of course not a popular idea in today’s ‘McChurch’.
Once you get past the too-loud guitars, ‘worship team’ members dressed in cutoff shorts and flip-flops leading worship and marketing exercises disguised as worship, you get a good look at some of today’s churches.
My church, which is considered fairly conservative, would do anything to attract a college student including running roughshod over the standards and values of worship of existing longtime members. A lot of times the people the service is designed to attract wind up leaving anyway.