Children’s ministries have for years focused on playtime and coloring; teens have been treated like large children who need to be entertained with contemporary music and a multitude of games and activities; adults are not to be bored with biblical exposition and theology. These practices stem from the late sixties, when the rebellious and spoiled baby-boomers…began to reshape everything (including the church) in their own image. Two generations of Christians have come and are moving through the church, many of whom have never experienced what a biblical church should be. So far removed are many Christians from the New Testament paradigm that many do not know that anything else exists or ever existed.
Gary E. Gilley with Jay Wegter, This Little Church Had None: A Church in Search of the Truth, by pg.222
2 comments:
Glenn,
So is any and all forms of entertainment in a church to be considered wrong by biblical standards? Are churches supposed to be silent to the point where only the pastor speaks and one is tired out of his or her mind at the long lecture being given? What would be your toleration limit before you would (or advice somebody to) leave a congregation?
Nonetheless, the worship of God is something we should be taking very seriously. It is in fact a matter of utmost importance, and a lot of professing Christians seem to be oblivious to that fact.
Jesse,
No. The point is, what is the purpose of the entertainment? The vast majority of entertainment in church is to draw people in; sucker them in with gimmicks. And that is wrong.
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