“For certain individuals whose condemnation was written about long ago have secretly slipped in among you. They are ungodly people, who pervert the grace of our God into a license for immorality and deny Jesus Christ our only Sovereign and Lord.”
Jude 1:4
“I charge you therefore before God and the Lord Jesus Christ, who will judge the living and the dead at His appearing and His kingdom: Preach the word! Be ready in season and out of season. Convince, rebuke, exhort, with all longsuffering and teaching. For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine, but according to their own desires, because they have itching ears, they will heap up for themselves teachers; and they will turn their ears away from the truth, and be turned aside to fables. But you be watchful in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, fulfill your ministry.”
2 Timothy 4:1-4
“Behold, the days are coming,” says the Lord GOD, “That I will send a famine on the land, Not a famine of bread, Nor a thirst for water, But of hearing the words of the LORD.”
Amos 8:11
If you need to be entertained at a church, just how deep, how great, how real of a Christ follower, a born new in mind and spirit person are you? And if you shrug, insist it brings the young people in, what kind of example are you? Why isn’t the whole Word of God enough?
No, this is all part of the great apostasy, the great falling away, the eroding and decay within the Western church.
Horrible, it is. An abomination, it is. A great sin, it is.
Yet it increases. The masses are deaf, dumb, and blind to the truth. Within the so-called “Christian church.”
Not in rare, isolated instances. Rampant. Widespread. Consuming. The new norm.
So many are seeking a church that preaches the whole Word of God. It’s become an epidemic of souls seeking the Word of God IN CHURCHES! and not finding it! And most refuse to read and believe the earlier covenant books, known as the Old Testament? Try rereading that Amos 8:11 verse, if you skimmed or neglected it. And even if you read it, read it again — for such is our time.
And time is running out. Time is short. I would never declare, state, or predict when, but it’s all coming to its fruition, it’s stated ways, according to the Word of God. Bible prophecy is unfolding daily. If only people would see, hear, smell it, recognize it, and come out of their stupor, their daze as they exist in utter illusion and delusion — and this is written to the professed Christian.
Time for some deep, deep soul searching and introspection, along with a whole lot of time spent face, eyes, mind, heart, spirit, soul, and body firmly planted within the whole Word of God and in a whole lot of fervent prayer, not amiss.
Time for repentance. Unless so numb, so blind, so deluded, you do not believe in the wrath of God.
Then? Well, you’ll learn. Tragically, sadly, but you’ll learn.
Read on…[and look over the list of links related to this]…
Ken Pullen, Thursday, July 24th, 2025
When The Church Becomes A Show: The Tragic Theatrics Of Modern Evangelism
July 24, 2025
By PNW Staff — Prophecy News Watch
Reprinted from Prophecy News Watch
In a desperate bid to be “relevant,” many modern churches have swapped the sacred for the sensational. The pulpit has become a platform. The sanctuary, a stage. The gospel, reduced to glitter. Once holy ground is now littered with fog machines, pop music, and movie scripts. And it’s not just a fringe trend–it’s becoming the defining flavor of much of American evangelicalism.
Take Church by the Glades in Coral Springs, Florida, for example. This megachurch has built its identity not around the Word of God, but around producing “experiences.” From a Backstreet Boys performance of Quit Playing Games (With My Heart) to sanitized renditions of Kendrick Lamar’s N95 and even a Willy Wonka Christmas, they’ve turned worship into theater. During one Christmas service, Pastor David Hughes proudly declared, “We should have a show.” Not a worship service. Not a proclamation of truth. A show.
Elsewhere, LCBC Church in Pennsylvania transformed their church into a Jurassic Park set–yes, complete with dinosaurs and a cow being fed to them. Why? To entertain. Not to edify. Not to exalt Christ. But to excite the crowd. And at Life.Church in Oklahoma, worship has taken the form of Super Mario Brothers adventures, complete with sermons built around Luigi, Princess Peach, and Koopa illustrations. Because nothing says “come to Jesus” like plumbing metaphors from a 90s video game.
And if that weren’t surreal enough, San Dieguito United Methodist Church in California recently replaced worship songs with a Beatles tribute band, letting Let It Be and Twist and Shout fill the sanctuary rather than hymns or praise. Their website proudly rejects biblical inerrancy, and it shows. When the Beatles become your worship team, it’s not ministry–it’s mockery.
Let’s be clear: the desire to reach people is not inherently wrong. Jesus came to seek and to save the lost. He ate with sinners. He used parables rooted in everyday life. But He never compromised the message for the method. He didn’t stage a circus to preach the kingdom. He didn’t entertain to evangelize. He spoke truth–even when it emptied the crowd.
Today’s “seeker-sensitive” churches have confused attraction with transformation. They hope that by mimicking the world, they’ll win the world. But in reality, the more we look like the culture, the less power we have to challenge it. Instead of shining as a city on a hill, we’ve become a mirror of the entertainment industry–slick, well-lit, and hollow.
Some might say, “But these churches are reaching people!” LCBC boasts tens of thousands of attendees and millions in tithes. Shouldn’t that be cause for celebration?
Not necessarily.
Big numbers don’t always mean deep roots. In fact, Jesus warned of shallow soil–people who receive the Word with joy, but have no depth and fall away when trouble comes (Matthew 13:20-21). Emotionalism, spectacle, and feel-good messages may fill pews, but they don’t forge disciples. They create fans, not followers.
Worse still, this showbiz approach cheapens the cross. When the blood-stained message of Christ is reduced to a movie quote or a pop song parody, we rob it of its gravity. We make light of what should make us weep. And ultimately, we send a message to the world that Jesus isn’t enough–He needs costume changes and a catchy beat to hold our attention.
There is a growing hunger for authenticity in the world. People are desperate for something real–something unshakable. And while churches scramble to compete with TikTok and Hollywood, they miss the profound power of simple, faithful gospel preaching. Of worship that trembles before God. Of community rooted in truth, not trend.
The early church had no fog machines. No tribute bands. No 16-foot chocolate waterfalls. And yet they turned the world upside down (Acts 17:6). Why? Because they had truth. They had Spirit. They had Jesus. And that was enough.
It still is.
The Church doesn’t need to be a show. It needs to be a sanctuary. A place where sinners find mercy, saints find strength, and Christ is lifted high. Let the world have its stages. Let the Church return to the altar.
The world has entertainment. What it lacks is holiness. And only the Church can offer that.
It’s time we stop trying to entertain people into the kingdom–and start preaching them there. The gospel is not a game. Worship is not a performance. Church is not a theater.
It’s holy ground.
Let’s treat it that way.
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