Many lessons could be learned.
Real. Relational. Relevant.
Freddy Finkelstein has left a new comment on your post "Steal This, Appleton - I Need Another Belly-Laugh":
Worship reduced to pure spectacle. You can see it written on the faces, and in the actions, of the onlookers in the audience-- "onlookers in the audience" being folks who, in times past, might have been referred to as "worshipers." Now they are consumers of spectacle, the same as if they were sitting in front of the television on Super Bowl Sunday. It is revolting. The reactions of the children are the dead giveaway. They are honest, in an innocent sort of way, when innovation is thrust upon them -- "look at this strange thing and that strange thing, one after the other!" Almost like I feel sometimes after I have been duped into visiting a Lutheran CGM congregation.
Freddy Finkelstein
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GJ - What prevents the Emerging Church model from doing the same? Nothing. "Worship is mostly adiaphora." WELS lay leader.
