"That's Entertainment!" (White Horse Inn) [5of5]

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(Credit to Youtube user jterry316 for the opening clip.)

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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[jettmanas]

Some of the best discussion I've heard on YT.

Glad I found it. Thanks-

[roboshort72]

Vance havner said it like this. "You don't have to dress like a clown to witness to a circus." We are so consumed with wanting to be liked by the world. We no longer believe in the power of the Word of God. We believe we must "trick", "convince" people they need what we have. But that is the same thing they get from a tv ad. We have the Truth. We have the Word of God. We know what matters. Why do we want to look like the world so badly? Why do we value "fitting in" so much?

[frederickj3]

I found this program very entertaining but using the internet for the gospel is so worldly. LOL! Gal 5:14 For all the law is fulfilled in one word, even in this; Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 15 But if ye bite and devour one another, take heed that ye be not consumed one of another.

[theflarpus]

I really enjoy the White Horse Inn clips. Thank you for posting them...

[lifebytheword]

I love this series keep up the good work.

[carbin15]

lol!!!!!

[jesuslivesanddied4u]

Wow, all of these acts do not go well with my spirit. Anything that is self promoting is not of God. I hope the Church wakes up and moves away from all sinful temptations. Sin looks fun but it leads to death. When you come to Christ you are to be reborn. Somethings you use to do, you will no longer have the interest to do again. Music has a spiritual connection that goes along with it. I pray our pastors are at least hip to this even if the congregation may not be. May Jesus Bless you All.

[berean1977]

seeing that "display" for Christ cuased me to cry...UPDATE: You can't walk it out, that's the point of Christ being perfect. You and I are not, but Christ is that is why he could be the sacrifice of the Cross that he was. Our job is to go out and PREACH the Gospel (which that man rapping was not doing), you can't LIve it only Jesus coud and infact did that. Amen.

[ProclaimHisWord]

Rap music and suggestively dressed dancing girls in the background as the congregation "make some noise"...and the problem is?

[rashnixon]

thank you for this series