Sunday Service Format
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The following video pokes fun at the contemporary church format. We might say something like, "it's funny because it's true."
The jab is not at large churches or modern style music, but at the driving force behind a church like the one in this video. I believe there are are many churches, big and small, "contemprovant" and not, that are producing a church service rather than gathering of believers coming together in order to worship Jesus. The seeker sensitive model seems to have given way to the rock concert/Hollywood model of church. Both models are flawed on more than one level. But I think as we watch this video and laugh, we need to take a hard look at the root of the problem. Is it because people are not opening their Bibles to learn, study, and hear form God's Word? Is it because prayer is on the back burner? Is there a lack of response to God here? It's easy to say yes. Who's to blame, the produces of Sunday Morning or the attendees seeking entertainment above Christ? However, identifying it is not what the believers of Jesus are called to do; making disciples is what Christ had in mind (Matthew 28:18-20). So that leaves us with the question, what are we to do (if anything) about the "contemporvant" trend in America?
The jab is not at large churches or modern style music, but at the driving force behind a church like the one in this video. I believe there are are many churches, big and small, "contemprovant" and not, that are producing a church service rather than gathering of believers coming together in order to worship Jesus. The seeker sensitive model seems to have given way to the rock concert/Hollywood model of church. Both models are flawed on more than one level. But I think as we watch this video and laugh, we need to take a hard look at the root of the problem. Is it because people are not opening their Bibles to learn, study, and hear form God's Word? Is it because prayer is on the back burner? Is there a lack of response to God here? It's easy to say yes. Who's to blame, the produces of Sunday Morning or the attendees seeking entertainment above Christ? However, identifying it is not what the believers of Jesus are called to do; making disciples is what Christ had in mind (Matthew 28:18-20). So that leaves us with the question, what are we to do (if anything) about the "contemporvant" trend in America?