(Thanks to Mousekin for the nooze tip)
Where does Stupid end and Blasphemous begin?
Have we lost our church? Have we lost our freakin’ minds?
Check this out.
Yowsah, yowsah, Super Bowl “service”! Watch our ministerette kick the Bible–decorated with football stitches!–off the stage. Hear the other pastor brag about “middle school humor” (don’t ask: I really wouldn’t ask).
Once upon a time there were men and women who would rather be martyred–who were martyred–rather than lend themselves to stunts like this.
But Crossroads Church in Cincinnati embraced this dog and pony show as “fun.” Not only fun: they said there were spiritual benefits, too.
They came to the crossroads and made a wrong turn.
“Let all things be done decently and in good order,” St. Paul wrote to the church in Corinth (1 Cor. 14:40). Fat chance of that happening here.
Turn around and walk back out.
I certainly would not have stuck around. The negative symbolic significance of that act is inestimable.
Their justification for this is it will bring in new people so more people will join the church and there will be more money for bigger, more modern church buildings, gymnasiums, tennis courts etc. Hey, isn’t the 21st century about having more of an abundant life? Just ask the “name it and claim it” preachers that infect our TV airwaves.
Bigger is not better.
Jesus commanded His followers to preach the Gospel of the Kingdom and to make disciples. Discipling someone is not conversion, it’s a process that takes a lot of time. It took Jesus over three years to train and prepare His 12 disciples. Jesus didn’t tell us to make “converts,” He told us to Make Disciples! (Matt. 28:19-20).
And if it took Him three years, how long would it take us?
The lack of reverence is astounding
I do not understand how any of our churches came to this.
Yeah!