billiefan2000
March 25th, 2008, 05:31 PM
http://www.sliceoflaodicea.com/?p=544
McChurch Offers 30-Minute Church Service—Because It’s All About You!
Circus Church, Emerging Church, Megachurch Follies
Mike Huckabee’s church, the Church at Rock Creek in Little Rock, Arkansas, is advertising its 30-minute church service “designed with you in mind”.
http://www.churchatrockcreek.org/rockcreekthirty.htm
Remember the time when church services were designed with God in mind? It seems like a long, long time ago.
They break the service down for those who might still be hesitant about attending church.
For 8 minutes, they promise that you’ll have “contemporary worship with the Rock Creek Band and Singers”,
then there’s the 15-minute message which they say is “focused” and “practical” with “life principles you can use now”.
Then they allot 5 minutes for “involvement” which means prayer and offerings have to fit in that slot.
Why all the hurry?
Their advertising says it all.
“Have more on your to-do list than time to do it?
Need to jump start your week with a high energy focus on God? Your time is valuable. Make the most of it with the Rock Creek 30″.
This is Rick Warren’s church movement in its purest form.
Man at the center. The Church at Rock Creek is a Purpose-Driven church showcase.
It’s all about you, every bit of it. Your time is valuable.
Toss a few crumbs at God. His time isn’t nearly as important as yours. His worship, His honor, His majesty,
His power, His mercy, His justice are irrelevant. What’s important is the great god, You.
How many of these pastors would treat a modern day monarch in this fashion?
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II invites them to a state dinner that will last two hours.
They respond: “Sorry, your, er, Majesty.
Our time is important. We have to-do lists and not enough time. We’ll talk to you for five minutes.
The rest will have to fit into 25 more minutes and we’re outta there.
We just want to jump start our week by hanging around royalty for a minute. Then it’s off to more important things.”
Unthinkable.
Now imagine treating the King of Kings in this fashion. That’s what they’re doing.
We view idolaters as men and women in grass huts bowing low over a carved figure on an altar.
How foolish to limit our ideas of idolatry to that.
Man is “God” now.
Man the creator, Man the predestinator, Man the savior.
Man the beautiful.
Man the hope of the world.
We love ourselves, pamper ourselves, preen before mirrors to see we have the right look of the moment.
We take God and dethrone Him in our minds.
We refuse to bow before Him in humility.
We will not be bothered to sacrifice even an hour of our precious time for Him.
We relegate our prayer time to Him to less than five minutes in “church” services like this and openly admit its because our time is valuable.
There is no shame.
As God gives more and more evangelicals over to spiritual blindness because of their rebellion, we’re going to see more and more absurdity carried out in God’s name.
Identify it and realize how truly wicked it is to treat the Lord of Heaven in this manner.
Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.
–Isaiah 44:6
http://www.sliceoflaodicea.com/?p=544
McChurch Offers 30-Minute Church Service—Because It’s All About You!
Circus Church, Emerging Church, Megachurch Follies
Mike Huckabee’s church, the Church at Rock Creek in Little Rock, Arkansas, is advertising its 30-minute church service “designed with you in mind”.
http://www.churchatrockcreek.org/rockcreekthirty.htm
Remember the time when church services were designed with God in mind? It seems like a long, long time ago.
They break the service down for those who might still be hesitant about attending church.
For 8 minutes, they promise that you’ll have “contemporary worship with the Rock Creek Band and Singers”,
then there’s the 15-minute message which they say is “focused” and “practical” with “life principles you can use now”.
Then they allot 5 minutes for “involvement” which means prayer and offerings have to fit in that slot.
Why all the hurry?
Their advertising says it all.
“Have more on your to-do list than time to do it?
Need to jump start your week with a high energy focus on God? Your time is valuable. Make the most of it with the Rock Creek 30″.
This is Rick Warren’s church movement in its purest form.
Man at the center. The Church at Rock Creek is a Purpose-Driven church showcase.
It’s all about you, every bit of it. Your time is valuable.
Toss a few crumbs at God. His time isn’t nearly as important as yours. His worship, His honor, His majesty,
His power, His mercy, His justice are irrelevant. What’s important is the great god, You.
How many of these pastors would treat a modern day monarch in this fashion?
Britain’s Queen Elizabeth II invites them to a state dinner that will last two hours.
They respond: “Sorry, your, er, Majesty.
Our time is important. We have to-do lists and not enough time. We’ll talk to you for five minutes.
The rest will have to fit into 25 more minutes and we’re outta there.
We just want to jump start our week by hanging around royalty for a minute. Then it’s off to more important things.”
Unthinkable.
Now imagine treating the King of Kings in this fashion. That’s what they’re doing.
We view idolaters as men and women in grass huts bowing low over a carved figure on an altar.
How foolish to limit our ideas of idolatry to that.
Man is “God” now.
Man the creator, Man the predestinator, Man the savior.
Man the beautiful.
Man the hope of the world.
We love ourselves, pamper ourselves, preen before mirrors to see we have the right look of the moment.
We take God and dethrone Him in our minds.
We refuse to bow before Him in humility.
We will not be bothered to sacrifice even an hour of our precious time for Him.
We relegate our prayer time to Him to less than five minutes in “church” services like this and openly admit its because our time is valuable.
There is no shame.
As God gives more and more evangelicals over to spiritual blindness because of their rebellion, we’re going to see more and more absurdity carried out in God’s name.
Identify it and realize how truly wicked it is to treat the Lord of Heaven in this manner.
Thus saith the LORD the King of Israel, and his redeemer the LORD of hosts; I am the first, and I am the last; and beside me there is no God.
–Isaiah 44:6
http://www.sliceoflaodicea.com/?p=544