Posted on 07/31/2023 11:33:53 AM PDT by Morgana
Life.Church kicked off their At the Movies campaign with a Super Mario Brothers theme, decorating several of their churches and crafting a sermon based around the adventures of Mario, Luigi, Bowser, Princess Preach, and various other stray Koopa that may make it into a sermon illustration.
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.
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.
When the Bible isn’t enough, nothing is ever enough.
Why not Ben-Hur? 1959
The Ten Commandments? 1956
Soddom and Gommorrah 1962
The Story of Ruth 1960
The Robe 1953
The Greatest Story Ever Told 1965
Barabbas 1961
King of Kings 1961
What did I forget? by all means please add to the list
Veggie Tales?
I liked Veggie Tales! Those were cool! So were 3...2...1...Penguins!
Spartacus? LOL
samson and delilah 1949
I wonder if Hollywood is paying these churches for this advertising. If not already, I’m sure they now know where to direct their marketing dollars towards.
I was wondering the same thing because I found more stories like these!
The props they have look very professionally done, so my guess is there is directly implemented with the help of Hollywood teams. I imagine we’ll might eventually hear a leak on it, but all the church goers will just shrug their shoulders.
The probs are professional done and expensive. Something is up I agree.
Did people come to saving faith??
If so I rejoice.
If not, it’s a waste.
“The Passion Of The Christ”. “”Son Of God”. “Jesus Of Nazareth” with Robert Powell.
I hope and pray they came to faith.
Same!
My dear mother once said that if you need to entertain people to get them to church, their being there doesn’t mean much.
What a disgrace. You should come to church to hear the preaching of the gospel, not view some gimmick. Worldly pastors need to be expelled.
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