Posted on 09/19/2023 6:08:57 PM PDT by Morgana
Church by the Glades in Coral Springs, FL, above and beyond all other congregations, exemplifies the use of worldly entertainment and ear-scratching techniques in the pathetic hope of catching the attention of wayward goatlings.
Known for their extravagant attempts to keep their members entertained, the 8000-member Southern Baptist megachurch frequently features secular songs in their services, having a repertoire that includes a Beyonce song about Dominatrixes, a cover of Run D.M.C’s sleazy and sexual song Walk this Way in church, performing Kendrick Lamar’s N95, only cleaned up and sanitized for church audiences, removing the curse words and racial epitaphs for a sermon illustration, putting on a Willy Wonka Christmas worship service’ and having a crazy ‘Baby Shark’ mashup during service, replete with smoke and canons!
In a newly unearthed video from their May 2019 sermon series “Heroes, Villains, and Sidekicks,” the church did a five-song medley to get the congregants pumped up and primed for the preaching, singing Taylor Swift’s Look What You Made Me Do, Estelle/Kanye West’s ‘American Boy,’ AC/DC’s Back in Black, M.C. Hammer’s U Can’t Touch This, and Beyoncé’s Run the World (Girls.)
It’s shameful as it is unsurprising. Lead impastor David Hughes has previously rationalized including these sorts of segments as part of his liturgy and services with this phenomenally stupid bible twist:
The church should have a show- every weekend we should have a show. I’ll tell you why. For my super spirituals right now, don’t log off, because Jesus promised and Matthew’s Gospel that anytime two or three or more would gather in his name, he would SHOW.
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Light shows, feel good lyrics and shallow preaching.
All designed not to offend....or lead anyone to sincere repentance.
The church is worshiping in the dark while claiming to be the light of the world.
The SB Convention is an umbrella organization. Some members are the handle, some hang from the fridge.
Fringe not fridge. I hate auto complete1
They’re on the highway to hell.
“racial epitaphs”
“Staff” are morons.
smh
Run D.M.C did a version of Walk This Way in cooperation with Aerosmith.
This is likely what was played given the rest of the songs listed.
You had it right the first time. There is no Gospel in there, they are cold. It’s like a Fridge.
We’re definitely in the Last Days.
The hour is very, very, very late.
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Nauseating, actually. (But epitaph is quite different from epithet.)
Pastor: We love creativity!
“Run D.M.C did a version of Walk This Way in cooperation with Aerosmith.”
Yea I know but last time I posted a thread about this church singing that song everyone complained that the author did not know who wrote it.
Better Back in Black than Hell’s Bells at church.
MC Hammer’s “Pray” makes sense. AC/DC? With the exception of the merely sinful You Shook Me All Night, every song in their showlist revels in absolute evil. Some comically (Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap), some disturbingly anti-Christian (Who Made Who), but none even remotely Christian-friendly.
We had a very good under 30s pastor at our Baptist church in the late 60s, but he was kind of clueless as to youth culture.
He would always say ‘If we didn’t want to preach the gospel, and we only wanted to provide entertainment for our youth, we could get Al Hirt to play and the church would be packed with young people’. Of course most of the youth were cruising listening to CCR, Stones, Hendrix, etc. I’d go home and complain to my dad (a deacon) who would laugh and say ‘you mean Al Hirt isn’t cool?’. He understood, but our pastor never caught on.
This church is famous for this crap
Seems like something I would see on the show righteous gemstones with John goodman
I like the old hymns
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