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‘Toward a Content-Free Church’ (2018)

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A few years ago someone sent us an information packet from one of America’s biggest megachurches–Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church.

Toward a Content-Free Church

Churches are like blogs: the operators want to draw people in. It’s only natural. But it can reach a point where churches underplay the Christianity just to keep the membership growing. Don’t tell ’em anything they don’t want to hear! If they don’t have the truth, don’t preach it!

Didn’t the Apostles have to deal with that, so long ago? See Revelation 2:20 for “that Jezebel” who corrupted the church of Thyatira.

‘Toward a Content-Free Church’ (2018)

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Can a church be too seeker-friendly? How big can your tent be, before it’s not a tent anymore?

A few years ago, Rick Warren’s Saddleback Church put out a “brand book”–which to me sounded like instructions for creating a content-free church.

Toward a Content-Free Church

La-dee-dah, we believe in everything, we believe in nothing, of course you can bring an idol into the sanctuary…

We want to bring people in, of course we do. But there’s no point in bringing them into a church where Jesus Christ is not the one and only Lord of lords.

‘The Gospel of Little Commitment’ (Chalcedon Editorial, 2017)

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“Be not conformed to this world…”  –Paul (Romans 12:2)

We return to this theme again and again: churches “reach out” so far, they’re not in the church anymore.

https://chalcedon.edu/blog/the-gospel-of-little-commitment

We have all had experience, I daresay, of theologically flabby churches that stop just short of outright apostasy–not because they have a horror of apostasy, but because they were just too blamed lazy to go any farther.

But remember: we are the Church: all of us who believe in Jesus Christ Our Lord, who call upon His name, and put our trust in Him. It’s not the building, it’s not the denomination. It’s “the holy catholic church” of the Apostle’s Creed, the universal family of all Christ’s people.

Some of whom can even be found in megachurches.