Sean Michael Lewis

As I travel across the country, I keep seeing the church become more and more entertaining. Leadership teams are focusing on ways to provide creative ways to draw in those that do not know Jesus.

At first, I see this is a great marketing strategy, but people aren’t dumb. The modern church is focusing to much effort and resources on trying to entertain adults and children instead of teaching the truth of God’s Word and believing in the power it has to change lives.

It really hit me when our ten year old went to visit another church with a friend one week. He said that he did not like the experience because they sat in a room and a man talked about something the whole time. The truth is the man was probably sharing the Word of God. The Church has adapted to making Jesus fun and entertaining for children that they never get the full purpose of why the Church exists. They tend to adjust to the standards of the public school system that all kids have ADHD, and we can never expect them to stay still for 5 minutes to learn about Jesus.

The bottom line is no matter how cool you think your church is, you can not compete with Hollywood. Entertaining Churches can bring people in with the concept of something different, but will not sustain to provide the truth people are searching for.

Over the next few weeks I want to venture into some discussion and some areas of things we are missing in the American Church today that are very clear in God’s Word.

SML