Posted on 09/01/2023 11:20:29 PM PDT by Morgana
A couple of churches in Missouri transformed their buildings into football stadiums to show their support for the Kansas City Chiefs participating in the Superbowl for the First time in 50 years, putting on a Super Bowl-themed service that includes a giant helmet walkway into the church, putting ‘turf’ on the ground, having all the worship leaders and staff dress up in Kansas City Chief jerseys, having a football accuracy station, giving out free hotdogs, setting up a photos station where congregants can take their picture with player cutouts, blasting a smoke machine, and playing football videos on the background wall while singing.
The sermon? Preaching on and exegeting super bowl commercials.
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, these are the churches we wrote about here:
For Life.Church East Kansas City and Life.Church Northland, the god of football and the idolatry of sports has clearly superseded the one true Lord.
This year was the third time the Chiefs were in the Super Bowl in the last few years, so someone doesn’t know what they are talking about.
The services are upbeat, an hour long, local worship with video sermon/teaching, and always share at least one of their 10 core values. If you look at the 8 church systems of Nelson Searcy, they do every one 95+%. That’s why people come to Christ, they keep growing, and with all attendance added together (over 100,00), Life Church is probably the largest church in America.
That said, the messages are primarily milk without much if any meat. We stopped going in 2016 when Groschel made seem like who you vote for in an election (Trump vs. Clinton at the time) is like deciding what clothes to wear for the day. Our daughter and her husband helped start a new campus, but also left to a church with a deeper spiritual experience.
They also focus on innovation, and with a core value of GIVING, give away the YouVersion Bible app with I suppose 500+ million downloads. They do a lot right, but like all of us, they aren’t perfect nor fit everyone, and are lacking in some areas. Bless them.
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