Right you are: The “numbers game” seemed to begin in the 1970s, wherein many churches began to try and work feminism and all sorts of nonsense into their teachings, knowing that the “truth and light” would cost them numbers. Had they focused on the truth rather than numbers, they would have succeeded in creating a minority, but a sizeable and significant one, which would have constituted a robust realm of dissent from the general culture. Instead, we have a mess. One hardly knows what it means to be “Christian” anymore: Some churches support gay marriage and just about anything that comes their way.
To be Christian means to accept Jesus as your savior. It doesn’t mean you are Baptist, Presbyterian or Catholic.
“the numbers game” is important for several reasons. First it is important for churches to be financially stable which requires money which in turn requires people in the pews.
Church doesn’t have to be boring and music is not of the devil.
Sure anything can be taken too far, thats true of most anything. Winning souls for Jesus is really all thats important.