[jwalburg]

At least the Catholics are moving toward less franchise-driven gospel presentation. The protestants, meanwhile, are embracing the pastor-conference ponzi-scheme model, where leadership seminars are all the rage, and Hollywood provides sermon suggestions with the video clips it sells churches for use in their sanctua— I mean worship centers.

[Mr. Lucky]

The protestants, meanwhile are embracing...

Wow! All of them?

[MamaB]

Just what are you basing these things on? It is not that way in any of the churches I have been to recently. Sure there are the ones on tv who have that good feeling, everything will be ok type of church but that is just them. Not one SBC church is that way. At least, none of the churches I have attended in recent years.

[Lee N. Field]

At least the Catholics are moving toward less franchise-driven gospel presentation. The protestants, meanwhile, are embracing the pastor-conference ponzi-scheme model, where leadership seminars are all the rage, and Hollywood provides sermon suggestions with the video clips it sells churches for use in their sanctua— I mean worship centers.

Sermon "suggestions"? How about full canned sermons complete with powerpoint graphics, available from a vast array of online vendors?

I've been preached a few. One, a whole series on marriage from the Fireproof movie. Others, I had suspicions about that a quick googleing confirmed. Pretty blandly generic in content, as I recall, which you might expect given that the sellers would want to sell to as wide a variety of end users as possible. About as tasty and nutritious as a TeeVee dinner

Some people, some places, have lost jobs over this. Other places, it's S.O.P., unfortunatly.