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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Sounds awesome. 30 years ago I might have gone.
Looking at them they look like old hymns. Nothing like Hillsong.
Non-denominational church.
Sorry, I misread.
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