Mega churches now and many other churches that are being run like a business. They’re selling something. They’re not really giving people peace, peace with God, peace of mind, contentment with what they have. It is really surprising to look at this. Let me pull this up here. This is a mega church in North Carolina, and this person is giving an interview, and she is head of digital media for this big church.

This is a church that’s got more than 25,000 members attending at multiple locations across the state. And so in this interview, the guy asked her, what are you gonna do for Easter? I’d love to hear about, like, what are you specifically tackling for Easter right now? Like, okay, this is gonna be a bigger service for most churches. What are some of the things that you have to get your ducks in a row, as it were, in respect to Easter? For us, the most important thing on Easter is inviting people to church.

Easter and Christmas are the only two Sundays of the year that are actually wrapped around a particular passage in the Bible. Right. Most of our other Sundays are whatever the pastor wants to preach on, any particular thing or whatever. But Easter and Christmas are both around particular biblical events. And so this particular biblical event of Easter is tied directly to our mission. And so that’s so important to us.

And so when I think about how I’m gonna talk about Easter, I’m thinking about talking to people far from God, because that’s the thing that matters most to us. So I’m not gonna say the word Calvary. I’m not gonna say the word resurrection. I’m not gonna say the blood of Jesus. I’m not gonna say any of these words that make someone feel like an outsider. This is really important.

An important guiding principle for how we develop language is anyone can be a part of our church. It might not be for everyone. Everyone might not like it, but anyone can come. You don’t have to understand what we’re, you know, any fancy language. There’s not any prerequisite to be able to come here. Well, yeah, there is a prerequisite, actually. It is Calvary, Christ, crucifixion, the resurrection. Those are the prerequisites for anything that a church does.

Now, if you got a business that you’re marketing to people and you don’t want to offend them, well, that’s a completely different thing. But there are some particulars there. How are they going to know any of this stuff unless somebody tells them, right? How will they believe unless they have been told? You’re not going to tell them you’re going to run away from this stuff because you think somebody might be triggered or offended.

This is what has happened. This is a good example. And I think this is really an example of what Meathead Rob Reiner is trying to do with his documentary on christian nationalism. That’s why I said, when John MacArthur talks about christian nationalism, he’s thinking about theological arguments he’s had with some of these people over eschatology or other things a couple of decades ago. That’s not what’s happening now.

These people are trying to make us ashamed to talk about Jesus, and they’re trying to make us ashamed of our religion and ashamed of the idea that there’s such a thing as absolute truth. She’s an example of that, and she hasn’t even been criticized yet. Now, John MacArthur doesn’t have a problem going on Larry King and saying, this is what I believe, end of story. You know, so he, I don’t think he really even sees that.

It’s not anything that would ever even really faze him, but he’s not this digital communications person like that. And I think all of our beliefs really need to be about that. We need to think about what are the important things in life and what we believe about those things. And we need to be convinced enough that we’re willing to stand on that. And if we don’t, our society is headed down the tubes faster than you can imagine.

And that’s what we see right now. And we see it heading down the tubes because of that very attitude about everything. About everything. So she’s there at a church called elevation church, pastored by Stephen Furtick, 25,000 people across North Carolina. She said it’s vitally important that people feel super chill when they get an invitation to attend the church’s Easter services. I mean, I, those are churches I go to.

We don’t even use the term Easter. We talk about resurrection Sunday. She doesn’t want to use the term resurrection. I think everybody pretty much knows what resurrection is. I mean, they’ve even used it over and over again in horror films. You know, back to the old Frankenstein movies. You know, the people go in and exhume the bodies so that they, you know, the doctors could experiment on them and do autopsies and stuff like that and learn anatomy.

They call them resurrectionists. I think everybody knows what that is about. Anyway, she said how we talk to someone who is not steeped in that tradition. Well, here’s how you talk to people. You declare what is true. The gospel is a declaration it’s not a debate. You say what’s true. And if God has opened up somebody’s heart and mind and ears and eyes to this, they’ll understand that.

Or they’ll ask some more questions and absolutely answer questions. But any kind of terminology that is there that they don’t understand, they can always ask. This person. On Protestia says elevation church seems to think words like resurrection are dirty and offensive. What sort of marketing ploy? That’s it, a marketing ploy. What kind of marketing ploy are they using to get people to attend services? You know, these people who do this kind of stuff think that the people are communicating with aren’t going to see them as condescending.

They think that people are not going to see that this is a marketing ploy. But people see through all that. It’s pretty transparent. So here’s one of the promotions that they put out for Easter. Hop on down to elevation church for a wicked Easter egg Stravaganza. Pastor Steve will deliver a three point sermon on why we shouldn’t pull all, put all of our eggs in one basket. And he’ll be wearing a Bugs bunny costume.

Plus, you’ll get your bunny worship on with our Gen Z worship band runners up and the 2022 regional American Idol auditions. Wow. Let’s go for some amateur entertainment. You want to see a guy wearing a bunny costume? Okay. I wonder if it’s that pink bunny costume that they had the kid in a Christmas story wearing. Ralphie or you go the other extreme. This is also from the same church.

It’s Megadeth Sunday at elephation church. 60 minutes of blood curdling mayhem. The crucifixion set to heavy metal soundtrack performed on stage by our in house thespians. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. They said guaranteed to scare the hell out of you. A nursery is provided. So anyway, this protestea, I’m sorry, this is not protestia. This is Todd Starnes comment. He says, an invitation to church. It doesn’t have to be a theological dissertation or some sort of bait and switch.

It also doesn’t have to be sensational entertainment either. It’s not what it’s about. You know, we just are entertaining ourselves to death, aren’t we? Can we not take anything seriously? Why not just be honest and upfront with people? Let them know what Easter is really about, why it’s important for them to hear the message. I mean, at some point, says Todd Starnest, elevation church does present the gospel message to their unchurched visitors.

Right. At some point, non Christians are told about the resurrection of Christ. Right. And we’re not sure, actually, we’re asking questions here. Does that really happen there? And at some point, the visitors are made aware that the blood of Jesus was the price that was paid for our sins. Right. If not elevation church Easter service is nothing more than a self help sermon accented with snazzy graphics and a so so cover band.

Yeah, it’s like Joel Osteen worked for him. He’s got an even bigger church. He’s got over 30,000, last I looked. Maybe we should start calling this so we could have this be a category. Call it osteenism or maybe Paula Whitish. Yeah. Though your sins be as Scarlet, they can be whitish, kind of. Now, these people are not about getting rid of sin. They’re not about understanding what it takes to make peace with God and the price that is paid.

And that’s one of the things that is different about Christianity. In Christianity, it is God who came in the form of man to pay the price so that he could have mercy and justice. He cannot look the other way. There has to be justice. But he took the penalty on himself. And so that’s the key thing with, with all the stuff that they want to run away from with their fun and games and with their business.

But probably quoting Isaiah would be a little bit too offensive for somebody. Anyway, a person’s name is Nikki Scherr. She is the digital content director. As one person said, when Christianity came to Rome, it manifested as a government. When it came to Europe, became a culture. When it came to America, it became a business with people like digital content directors. Importantly, in a disclaimer, the guy who did the interview, he says it’s important that elevation absolutely emphasizes the resurrection of Christ in an Easter service.

And they use that word while the guy is standing there in a bunny costume. I guess, yes. It’s just clownish. The question is, are you in this life? Do you really understand what is happening? As I began talking about Kate Middleton, one guy said, when you preach to people, he says, you preach as a dying man talking to other dying people. You think that’s what’s happening when this guy’s putting on a bunny costume, is that the attitude that he’s got there? Is this something they take seriously? Are you playing with your sin? Are you fighting your sin? The David Knight show is a critical thinking super spreader.

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