Good post. I don’t disagree with you except that I feel that it’s not an entertainment issue. It’s a leadership issue. You can have both Christ centered entertainment with people using their talents AND have Christ centered sermons. One without the other is when problems arise.
A good way to see what the church’s focus is is to imagine it without a building (whether it be a fire, flood, etc). Would it survive? The church building, instruments, drums, organ don’t make up the church. The people do. If you ask the members what would happen if everything was wiped out and they panic and say IDK, then you have an immature church. If the church doesn’t miss a beat and continues meeting (when feasibly possible of course) then you have a mature church. I hope I’m making sense here.
All I’m trying to say is that having entertainment is not the issue that makes a church fail or not be mature.
justice14 wrote:
“All I’m trying to say is that having entertainment is not the issue that makes a church fail or not be mature.”
St. Paul, in accord with Moses, disagrees with you:
“And do not become idolators as were some of them. As it is written, ‘The people sat down to eat and drink, and rose up to play.’”(1 Corinthians 10:7, quoting Exodus 32:6)