On Sunday, March 11 during our Sunday celebration service, Fr. Kevin came under a tremendous anointing to preach about worship. This was a prophetic message to the Church:
- The Holy Spirit is confronting long-held views of church growth worship. Worship is about God, not us; Christ, not entertainment. Worship should form the character of the Christian
- Churches have become captive to today's therapeutic, TV-addicted, and narcissistic culture.
- Having a set, repeated, and Scripture-rich liturgy following the church calendar will do much more to shape the worshiper's character than most of today's informal services.
- Taking the "church mall" approach to reaching the world is making the Christian message just another way for people in America to be "spiritual" and just another lifestyle choice in a pluralistic culture.
- Many Christians from the Baby Boomer and Baby Buster generations are tired of being entertained, especially when their lives become difficult and they need real answers.
- Fr. Kevin says he could never attend a church that is just another self-help seminar.
- Worship should subvert culture. Since the true gospel is shocking, it is not something that is able to be mass-marketed. Mass marketing is why the Gospel has been dumbed-down and reduced to self-help.
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