Posted on 08/08/2023 4:32:30 AM PDT by Morgana
Life.Church in Rogers, Arkansas, recently concluded week 3 of their kicked At the Movies campaign with a Spiderman theme, decorating the church and crafting a sermon based around the adventures of the famed webcrawler, intercut with scenes from the movie.
It’s not a one-off for the 85,000-member, seeker-sensitive, multi-site-based Oklahoma church that has 40 locations, but rather something they do every year. Led by Craig Groeschel, the pastor and lead visionary who is an awful preacher and habitual scripture- twister, and who recently launched the metaverse for the megachurch, their promo material explains:
At the Movies is an annual summer event at Life.Church. We decorate our lobbies in our favorite movie themes and invite friends and family. During the experience, we show snippets of popular films, and Pastor Craig creates a message based on themes from the film. It’s one of our most popular and fun series, and we look forward to it every year.
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Church goers are treated to drinks, bags of popcorn, and other movie theater confectioneries. Everything about the service screams that this is all just a show- an offering to Baal on the altar of entertainment.
I think I can say with reasonable certainty that God hates it.
“seeker-sensitive”
Ugh. Cringe. Etc...
I know I’m not thrilled about it.
I hope people come to saving faith in Christ, who never darkened the door of a church before…
Broken, tattooed, pierced, the self-righteous, and other sinners who need the Savior.
Badly describe a movie:
Spiderman: Teenage boy gets excited, shoots sticky fluid all over the place.
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