Tuesday, August 24, 2004
Church Search Episode 4: J-Lo meets Health and Wealth Gospel
This week we went to a place called "The Kings Chapel" or something like that. It was billed as an international church, which seemed interesting, and it was interesting.
First, to be nice, they get 10/10 for really being international, heck it could have been a UN convention in there. They even had flags from various countries lining the sactuary around the top and behind the pulpit. Except in the UN they never would have had the Israli, US, and Christian flags in prominent position.
Second, the church gets 10/10 for flashiness. Lots of money, everything was big, and nice and expensive...
10/10 for Worship too. And this is where J-Lo comes in. The lead singer in their worship team could have been Jennifer Lopez's twin sister. Needless to say that was a bit diconscerting. But the music was great, they could have cut an album.
10/10 for the seats, the chairs were cushy movie theater style things. Very nice.
1/10 for the 10-15 minute sermon trying to convince us to give more money. Especially since it was poorly done, overly long, and not very convincing.
2/10 for the actual sermon, which was much more entertaining, but was really just 30 minutes expanded around the theme: "Jesus is my friend who gives me power and good stuff" sorta like health and wealth gospel, only with a little bit of "Jesus is my drug of choice" thrown in. Not real convincing, not well grounded theologically, and frankly the substance of the sermon could have been summarized in 1-2 minutes without losing any depth.
1/10 for our favorite quote of the service: The pastor uses the phrase "Peeky-poo of whats on the inside" puling back his lapel to reveal that he was wearing a pink shirt and yellow tie. The worst part was, no one laughed, no one thought this was strange (except us).
So yeah, we won't be going back.
This week we went to a place called "The Kings Chapel" or something like that. It was billed as an international church, which seemed interesting, and it was interesting.
First, to be nice, they get 10/10 for really being international, heck it could have been a UN convention in there. They even had flags from various countries lining the sactuary around the top and behind the pulpit. Except in the UN they never would have had the Israli, US, and Christian flags in prominent position.
Second, the church gets 10/10 for flashiness. Lots of money, everything was big, and nice and expensive...
10/10 for Worship too. And this is where J-Lo comes in. The lead singer in their worship team could have been Jennifer Lopez's twin sister. Needless to say that was a bit diconscerting. But the music was great, they could have cut an album.
10/10 for the seats, the chairs were cushy movie theater style things. Very nice.
1/10 for the 10-15 minute sermon trying to convince us to give more money. Especially since it was poorly done, overly long, and not very convincing.
2/10 for the actual sermon, which was much more entertaining, but was really just 30 minutes expanded around the theme: "Jesus is my friend who gives me power and good stuff" sorta like health and wealth gospel, only with a little bit of "Jesus is my drug of choice" thrown in. Not real convincing, not well grounded theologically, and frankly the substance of the sermon could have been summarized in 1-2 minutes without losing any depth.
1/10 for our favorite quote of the service: The pastor uses the phrase "Peeky-poo of whats on the inside" puling back his lapel to reveal that he was wearing a pink shirt and yellow tie. The worst part was, no one laughed, no one thought this was strange (except us).
So yeah, we won't be going back.
Comments:
I have to say, it was really refreshing to be at a truly racially integrated church! Segregation in the church has always bothered me. Of all places...
Anyway, that aspect really excited me. I don't think any one "race" (hate that word, but that's another story) was a majority or minority there. VERY nice to see. A shame that it didn't challenge us spiritually...
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Anyway, that aspect really excited me. I don't think any one "race" (hate that word, but that's another story) was a majority or minority there. VERY nice to see. A shame that it didn't challenge us spiritually...
