The following text is from the website of a large church very close to where I live. It tells me all I need to know about the focus of the church. It also helps me understand the size of its membership.
The ________ Church Praise and Music Teams are some of the most gifted and talented performers! Their music ministers to and entertains over __________ people each weekend.
When did worship become about entertaining the congregation? Perhaps some of you out there know the actual date. Sadly, this statement is probably not the exception in western Christian circles.
The postmodern, me-centered church is alive and well in America. Rick Warren's Purpose Driven Church sold 900,000 copies. Warren's Purpose Driven Life has sold almost 30,000,000 copies. People are, according to Warren's book sales, three times more interested in the subject matter when it is about them than they are when it is about the church.
But any of us could have predicted those sales trends.
Maybe if the church were less about entertaining people and more about reaching them with the life changing truth of the gospel we would be more effective in our evangelical efforts.
May God have mercy on us all.
4 comments:
Nice. A large church close to where you live? Do they fellowship a lot???
Every Saturday and Sunday.
I think I know this church... BTW, when are we visiting their bookstore?
:-)
BTW, you forgot the TM on the PDL stuff...
:-) :-)
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