"That's Entertainment!" (White Horse Inn) [3of5]

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February 3, 2008 Commentary:
That's Entertainment!

Hello and welcome to another broadcast of the White Horse Inn. Well there's no business like show business. And from the look of things, the church in America agrees. I don't even need to recount examples in order to substantiate that claim. If you have been around a fair number of churches these days you are bound to know what I am talking about. I used to think that American Christianity was just accommodating to the general cultural trend that Neil Postman described in his book, Amusing Ourselves to Death. But after reading a spate of culture histories, have come to realize that the church actually helped create our culture of entertainment. Once upon a time the church was the only show in town, for rich and poor, princes and peasants the spectacle of the Medieval Mass was high drama. In fact the relative difficulty of the Reformation in reaching the lowest classes was probably to some extent at least due to the attachment of the masses to mysterious rituals, processions, morality plays, and similar attractions. Convinced that the Bible should be heard, read, and understood by everybody in their own language the Reformers introduced Europe to wide-scale literacy with an emphasis on an educated ministry for a well instructed laity.

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Our subject is "That's Entertainment: Confusing Church and Theater from Finney to the present."


Oldtruth.com has been dealing with the issues presented in this program for a few years now. You can find a lot of information involving various topics concerning the "seeker"-sensitive movement here:
http://www.oldtruth.com


TeamPyro has been deals alot with the "emergent church" of digressives. You can find information here:
http://teampyro.blogspot.com

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[bendecidaporDios100]

@holinesspentecostal It's not about denomination, its about, what the Bible say. I Hope you keep close to God; the men always is going to fail but not God.

[holinesspentecostal]

@bendecidaporDios100 I have no problem with Ezekiel 22:26-29. It is a very great description of the Charismatic movement......and most of modern Christianity for that matter!! There are plenty of Calvanists and Baptist preachers on radio and TV who are just as big of liars and money grubbers as the...."Thus saith the Lord...Charismatics"! I have NO confidence in ANYONE on ANY TV network!...In fact...I don't even own a TV! What about the rock concerts in Baptist churches?...ENTERTAINMENT???

[bendecidaporDios100]

@holinesspentecostal -JUST READ EZEKIEL 22:26-29

[janeym]

Jesus freak is a terrible song.

[Mojosbigstick]

Fat and Frantic!

[Patternpop]

@strech7951

Amen many people have died for Christ we should not take their blood so light...

There pain should be our pain.

[holinesspentecostal]

It's funny how you guys don't show an old fashioned pentecostal or independent Baptist worship service from the mountains of North or South Carolina where folks sing hymns and shout "Glory to God" and "Praise the Lord" and occasionally run the ilses.

[strech7951]

I like Toby Mac and DC Talk but, I would not sing "Jesus Freak" in church.

[raychell29]

Wow a talented gangbanger hip hop show. I was waiting for the guy to flash some signs and bust out some weed or sherm. LOL. Hey, whatever it takes to entertain.

[Chrystalwuzhere]

How true! Most of the churches around here schedule two revivals a year. Some are two to three days, and some are five days.