Church of the Masses
I came across a quote recently that is so challenging to me as a church that meets in a movie theater.
A 1930's film critic said, "Theaters are the new church of the masses--where people sit huddled in the dark listening to people in the light tell them what it is to be human."
I hate to say it, but the 60% of Americans who don't go to church get their theology from music and movies. Musicians and movie makers are the chief theologians in our culture. I think it's about time the church regained it's rightful position. But we've got to compete for the truth. And it probably has to be on their playing field.
Wouldn't it be amazing if more people went to church in a theater someday than go to watch a movie in a theater :)
A 1930's film critic said, "Theaters are the new church of the masses--where people sit huddled in the dark listening to people in the light tell them what it is to be human."
I hate to say it, but the 60% of Americans who don't go to church get their theology from music and movies. Musicians and movie makers are the chief theologians in our culture. I think it's about time the church regained it's rightful position. But we've got to compete for the truth. And it probably has to be on their playing field.
Wouldn't it be amazing if more people went to church in a theater someday than go to watch a movie in a theater :)
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Tell me. What God should I pray to? The God of the PharoahS? The Druids? The Vikings? The Hindus? The Indians? The Muslims? The Christians? Or which one of the perhaps tens of thousands of Gods invented by man to praise or curse ever since he climbed down out of the trees?
I pray to the God who was born in Bethlehem and died outside Jerusalem and rose from the dead :)
Jesus wasn't "invented." He drank H20 like us.
My two cents.
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