Posted on 11/02/2022 10:18:04 AM PDT by Morgana
Church by the Glades in Coral Springs, FL, an 8000- member Southern Baptist megachurch continues its celebration of all things fleshly. Known for their extravagant attempts to keep their members entertained, in the past few months alone they played a cover of Run D.M.C’s sleazy and sexual song Walk this Way in church, as well as preformed Kendrick Lamar’s N95, only cleaned up and sanitized for church audiences, removing the curse words and racial epitaphs for a sermon illustration.
Now, as part of their month-long pirate-themed church sermon series, to close it all out, they performed a mashup of ‘Youngblood’ by 5 Seconds of Summer (edited to remove offensive lyrics) & the viral ‘Baby Shark,’ by Pink Fong.
This is not part of the sermon illustration, but rather is purely meant to entertain, with senior pastor and Chief Entertainer David Hughes previously explaining that they are a “hyper-creative church” and they embrace a “whatever it takes” mentality in order to “entice a lot of families to come check out our church.”
Check out the last 30 seconds or so. This is part of the church service.
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See you throw away good old fashion hymn books, bring in the jumbotrons and you get this
What’s a ‘racial epitaph’?
“What’s a ‘racial epitaph’?”
I hope one of you could tell me, the expressions these young people come up with is too much and I just can’t keep up with it.
I think that’s just illiteracy, not a ‘young people expression’.
Was the Gospel even proclaimed at this ‘performance’? They should’ve saved this for Vacation Bible School...if they even host it.
I think it’s supposed to be “racial epithet”.
Wow. The road to hell is paved with flashy stage lights.
How about extravagant attempts to reach the lost?
Sounds good to me. Epithets, epitaphs, what’s the diff? Duh.
Maybe it had something to do with Jonah getting swallowed by a whale.
Dear Senior Pastor and Chief Entertainer David Hughes: If I want to be entertained, I have at my fingertips 1000 channels of on-demand television, live professional sports, every movie Hollywood ever made, live concerts, and theater.
Can you compete with that?
If you want to attract people, how about offering something instead of ever-present secular entertainment?
“This is not part of the sermon illustration, but rather is purely meant to entertain”
What you do to get them there you have to do to keep them there.
Do ‘Canons’ really = ‘Cannons’ here?
I’m thinking yes.
Beats having to preach the Word.
Hey, maybe they meant it in the literary and ecclesiastical sense...
Who cares what some dopey church does?
I can see how the young people might enjoy a group activity like this - it takes a lot of planning, group cooperation and involvement, and keeps them off the streets.
But it shouldn’t be part of the ‘church’ service.
“a cover of Run D.M.C’s sleazy and sexual song Walk this Way”
It’s Aerosmith’s song. Run DMC did a remake of it (with Aerosmith’s participation) and added a rap to it.
“How about extravagant attempts to reach the lost?”
Not as profitable.
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