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Megachurch Puts on ‘Ghostbusters’ Themed Service, With Slimer and Stay Puft Marshmallow Man
Protestia ^ | July 5, 2025 | staff

Posted on 07/07/2025 11:21:21 AM PDT by Morgana

Life.Church Owasso kicked off their “At the Movies” campaign with a Ghostbusters theme, decorating their church to resemble the Ghostbusters headquarters, complete with an animatronic Slimer and giant Stay Puft Marshmallow Man outside, while crafting a sermon based around the film.

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.

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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.

Unfortunately, the sermons are never livestreamed or broadcast due to copyright infringement issues related to the large number of movie clips they feature, but here is the sanctuary in all its glory.

**pictures/video on link**

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1 posted on 07/07/2025 11:21:21 AM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana
I don't know. If you went back in time and saw my youth pastor play from a VHS tape some clips he or someone in the church put together from various Star Wars movies, I don't think anyone would shame him for it. He did a good job of saying things like, "Star Wars is entertaining, but not real. If you like 'the force', then pray every day for God to give you His Spirit, because He's real. Fiction is at best entertaining. But God's Spirit in your life changes your life and the lives of the people around you."

If that's all this church is doing, then I'm for it.

2 posted on 07/07/2025 11:39:24 AM PDT by Tell It Right (1 Thessalonians 5:21 -- Put everything to the test, hold fast to that which is true.)
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To: Morgana

These megachurches are just social clubs and nothing else.


3 posted on 07/07/2025 12:03:57 PM PDT by No name given ( Anonymous is who you’ll know me as)
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To: Morgana

Can you say “Vacation Bible School”? Yep, done to evangelize children. It happens EVERY summer.


4 posted on 07/07/2025 12:08:24 PM PDT by Fai Mao ( All Democrats are pedophiles )
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To: No name given

“ These megachurches are just social clubs and nothing else.”

It’s not that simple.
The church I go to is technically a megachurch by its size .
It is hugely evangelistic, baptizing hundreds every year.
Thousands of kids singing about Jesus for VBS.
Programs to help people going through difficult times, freeing people from addictions and many other things.
It’s like the church of Acts in some ways


5 posted on 07/07/2025 12:13:49 PM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (“I don’t really care, Margaret.”)
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To: Morgana

“Megachurch” == Religion flavored circus.


6 posted on 07/07/2025 12:33:30 PM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along.)
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To: Morgana

“Megachurch” == Religion flavored circus.


7 posted on 07/07/2025 12:33:31 PM PDT by Salman (It's not a slippery slope if it was part of the program all along.)
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To: Morgana

Say what? Life. Church O’what?
Jesus is gonna’ reject these people if they don’t repent of their sins and trust in Him. Bottom Line.
Ghostbusters? Sheesh....


8 posted on 07/07/2025 12:41:17 PM PDT by Getready (Wisdom is more valuable than gold and harder to find. )
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To: Morgana

“If I be lifted up from the Earth, I will draw all Ghostbusters to myself”


9 posted on 07/07/2025 1:36:03 PM PDT by Jan_Sobieski (Sanctification)
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To: Morgana

My sainted mother often said that… “if you needed entertainment to get people to go to church, their being there didn’t amount to much.”


10 posted on 07/07/2025 1:55:40 PM PDT by The Great RJ
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To: The Great RJ

Ancient Egyptian Pagan Temples, had lots of music, Plays, Dancing girls, free food. But, they had no heart.


11 posted on 07/07/2025 1:57:47 PM PDT by Forward the Light Brigade (. War is Hell, War IS a Crime.)
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To: Morgana

Did they have alien sex in the penthouse?


12 posted on 07/07/2025 2:09:42 PM PDT by If You Want It Fixed - Fix It
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To: Morgana

The Church of What’s Happening Now.


13 posted on 07/07/2025 2:14:54 PM PDT by yuleeyahoo (“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!” - the deep-state)
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To: Morgana

Megachurches are money grubbing scams and should be investigated for fraud and shut down if necessary. This is not a slight against Christianity, because their behavior is unChristian.


14 posted on 07/07/2025 2:23:19 PM PDT by Apparatchik (Русские свиньи, идите домой)
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To: Apparatchik

The biggest megachurch in the world has 1.4 billion members and a single inerrant leader. No other church comes close to “mega.”


15 posted on 07/07/2025 5:57:51 PM PDT by Larry Lucido
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To: Morgana

Morgana, you would have an easier time if you just looked at all the blasphemous, heretical, and sacreligious things your Catholic religion does. Then you would have some free time left over to get a life.


16 posted on 07/13/2025 12:47:55 PM PDT by Old Yeller (On judgement day, you’ll wish you were biblically correctly, not politically correct.)
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