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With all due respect, Jesus gave a speech from a boat to over 5,000 people on the shore without a PA system, yet every ear heard. Twice, he fed the masses with only a few loaves and fish. I think that's pretty 'slick'.

"Without a PA system"...

Exactly.

Why can't churches these days do without a PA system or amplifiers?

Actually, I have nothing against modern technology as such in churches, but I do not like lame "praise music" that sounds like bad renditions of "Air Supply" songs, followed by "slick" sermons that sound like I'm listening to a used car salesman (or a slick lawyer, for that matter). I guarantee that Jesus or Paul didn't come across this way.

"With all due respect, Jesus gave a speech from a boat to over 5,000 people on the shore without a PA system, yet every ear heard. Twice, he fed the masses with only a few loaves and fish. I think that's pretty 'slick'."

And what did He say to the crowd later?

He did not come to lead them around the wilderness like Moses and feed them miraculously with perishable food. He came to give Himself as food that would give the partaker eternal life.

Jesus was not being "slick" by meeting the needs of the people who listened in the wilderness. When they became more focused on the sign than Who the sign pointed to, and more focused on having their belly filled than the nourishment of their spirit, He left them.

There might be many ways you could describe Christ's and the apostles' preaching and teaching, but "slick" is not one of them. They proclaimed that to follow Christ you must be willing to let go of the things you hold dear, you must expect trials and persecution.

A lot of Christian ministries today prefer to make money with ear tickling rather than proclaiming the true gospel (sincere and without offense) and teaching sound doctrine.