Or on the other hand, when you have a rich president in office why should his step-brother live in a shack?
There are large churches that are meeting the needs of the world in Christian love, and there are small churches that are only meeting the needs of their congregants. This author paints with a broad brush.
Is a giant cross frivolous? Yes. But we live in a country where people expect their handouts. They want your food and money and don’t want to hear about Jesus or the reason why you are feeding them or paying their power bill.
Studies show that the 18-34 demographic expect glitzy presentations when they do attend church. They want comfortable seats, professional and free day care, air conditioning, TV screens and professional PowerPoints. They want a full rock band with a good sound system. They don’t want a humble little church with a good message. It’s sad, but its a fact of life.
So, if a mega-church wants to build a $50M “campus” and it attracts followers who come to know Christ, then good! If it takes a giant cross to make someone in our commercialized culture ponder the fate of his or her soul, then that’s a good thing. Perhaps they can attract these new followers and one day they will mature and decide that the message is more important than the presentation, and they’ll migrate to the humble little church. We’ll still be there waiting for them.
I'm not trying to paint with that broad brush--maybe they are doing it already. Even so, it this the wisest use of God's resources?
There is a logical fallacy here. Building a large cross is not going to stop persecution or people from living in mud huts. This is the same line of thinking that goes, eat all your vegetables because people are starving in China. The other fallacy is that building a large cross is going to produce Christians. It has value to the people building it in that it makes them feel good, but other than that there is no effect from the cause. If looking at a cross converted people to Christianity, almost everyone would be a Christian.
$230,000 is not a lot of money when it comes to construction. It’s not like their adding another wing to the Vatican, here. It’s the cost of a modest tract home.
Texas has a large one on I-40 just outside Amarillo close to the Cadillac Ranch sculpture.
Right there is worth the price of admission.
The author clearly has not been saved, and offers a pathetic excuse for his miserable life.
He covets all material objects that Christians may have, but is not going to take efforts such as giving, helping, praying, and opening his heart to Jesus that would bring him riches that he obviously doesn't know exist.
Hopefully someone will invite him to that church he fears so much.
Maybe he'll notice that he's the only one there overcome by fear.
Maybe he'll be so bugged by it that he asks someone about it.
Maybe if we all pray that the little buzzard thinks of nothing else from now on, he'll take that 1st step.
“How dare you not eat your lutefisk, chard, Limburger and liver casserole, when there are children in Lower Slobbovia with nothing to eat but gravel?”
“How about you package it up for them, parcel post. I doubt it will get any worse if sent by unrefrigerated cargo ship.”
Seriously, only a liberal idiot says that Americans should never have pleasure, because somewhere, someone else is miserable.