Posted on 09/02/2023 1:18:04 AM PDT by Morgana
Life.Church in Edmond, OK, recently continued its At the Movies campaign with a Super Mario Brothers theme, decorating their church to make it look like the Mushroom kingdsom 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 scripturetwister, 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.
While most life churches were content to gussy up their lobbies and foyers to be on point, this particular Life.Church stepped it up a notch, with pastor Stephen Cole appearing on stage playing video games. After a brief ‘power outtage,’ He finds himself in the video game, bouncing around until he makes it to the end of the level, where he then turns back into himself and proceeds to sing and rap Mario songs.
I’m not one for theatrics either. Just give me an old style sermon.
When I want to see a movie, I’ll go to a movie. When I want church I go to church, I go to church. This is not church.
I cant’ believe people put up with this or keep going back to this.
I can’t pray in there. I can’t even collect my thoughts in that hot mess.
I know how you feel.
How many widows, poor and needy could have been given food and shelter instead of tossing money into the drain to decorate and come up with this garbage?
That’s near where I live. It’s a prosperity Church/ cult in the making. When you have an entire children’s building you know it’s whacky
Thank God I’m Catholic.
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