Posted on 03/24/2024 5:05:46 PM PDT by Twotone
A Nashville nightclub is redefining the concept of faith - and clubbing - with heavily attended gatherings that have strict rules against twerking, drinking, and smoking.
Enter The Cove - an 18-and-up pop-up started this past year by seven young, black Christians, that only enforces the three above rules.
There's an unspoken one as well - a playlist devoted entirely to Christian music.
The establishment comes in response to a post-pandemic decline in church attendance, organizers this week said - citing the mostly black, Gen-Z crowd.
These pious partiers flood their doors regularly, the masterminds revealed -speaking for a feature published this past Monday.
Their mission? To prove that being Christian can be cool, whatever the setting.
'We ourselves experienced a pain point of not being able to find community outside of our church, not knowing what to do to have fun without feeling bad for doing stuff that's conflicting to our values,' Founder Eric Diggs told AP of the need for such an institution.
'There wasn't a space to cultivate that, so, we created it ourselves.'
Citing the loneliness, anxiety, depression, and quarantine COVID created, the Cove's CEO, only 24, went on to describe how he and his friends cultivated that concept.
It began with a lofty goal - getting 1,000 followers on social media before their first monthly party, which was held in November.
The reception, though, was much more pronounced than first thought - a hint at the success still to come.
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Seems some need a leg to stand on that isn’t made of sand. Just saying.
Blaspheme.
I'm gonna need more than a few drinks. No deal.
Their mission? To prove that being Christian can be cool, whatever the setting.
https://www.ligonier.org/learn/articles/westminster-shorter-catechism
Young clubbers sit together at The Cove, an alcohol free, 18-and-up, pop-up Christian nightclub, on Saturday, February 17
For generations Christians have tried to form entertainment venues for young Christians to give them alternative places to hang out and socialize while burning off energy.
I don’t see anything blasphemous about it.
I’m assuming they all know about Jesus Christ. You would have to get your alcohol somewhere else, though
https://pos.toasttab.com/blog/on-the-line/nightclub-ideas-and-concepts
This wasn’t on the list of 20 best night club themes and ideas.
Ya got that right.
This won’t end well. I give it a few months before they start calling their night club a church.
So many of today’s Christians would rather give in to the world instead of speaking against its wickedness.
The "Christians can be cool" schtick makes we want to puke. It's shallow.
It also opens up the possibility that anyone of Biden’s third world invaders from Muslim countries could target it killing Christians.
Anyone Not Against Us Is For Us
Luk 9:49 John said to Jesus, “Master, we saw someone using Your name to cast out demons, but we told him to stop because he isn’t in our group.”
Luk 9:50 But Jesus said, “Don’t stop him! Anyone who is not against you is for you.”
Is there black Christian music? Idk. I assume it is young Christian music. I doubt if they play Onward Christian Soldiers. Overall it is good to see. It is not a church service. Sometimes they have Christian music at church that might be considered inappropriate.
If it works great. I just don’t see it working.
Is there black Christian music?
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=black+Christian+music&ia=web
the net thinks so.
Maybe it doesn’t have to work or do anything, maybe being a place to hang out, dance and have a young social life outside of the bars until it fades away is enough.
Today it is there for those who are using it and a lot of young adults have to be somewhere doing something, with someone.
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