DUCK!

"you call it loosening up, I call it spiraling down"

As I have commented many many times before-what this culture has done to Christianity is, at times, disgusting. I don't entirely blame the preachers and messengers, as I don't believe some people truly think about what is going on. Some things, I'm willing to "live and let live", because my hope is sometimes ignorance will be someone's saving grace. However, the sight of flying tortillas had me gasping for air.

I'm not kidding. We live in a world where we attempt at all costs to take the sanctity out of the church in order to appeal to people who seem to have no desire to learn about God unless it's on their terms. We've stepped up the music beat including guitar solos that can be easily compared to a "guitar hero" session. We've created light shows for the singers, all sorts of swinging doors and props for the speakers. And having worked in churches who utilize this sort of behavior, I've also seen the political game it takes to be "cool" enough to work under the big top. TV preachers go to greater lengths, as they are trying to vie for a greater audience....move over American Idol.

I've become saddened because I believe this is not indicative of the Church God had in mind. I'm sad because I wonder what we miss as a congregation by being subjected by (and/or involved with) this Barnum and Baily's act. The new line has been drawn when a preacher on TV opened his message by throwing (literally frisby-ing ) them into the audience (I call it that intentionally). WTH????

Have we decided that church is no longer a place of worship and reverence for God....to bring our offerings of praise, repentance, and acceptance of his Word in our lives??? Perhaps the church is now just as casual as TGIF or Applebees. Perhaps someone has decided there's no longer a need for reverence and respect in he place we choose to call a place of worship. I don't recall reading anything in the Bible that said that this was the plan for our lives, but I guess as I've mentioned before....that just goes to show I'm obviously not on the new council of Christianity!