Willow Creek Does Christmas

January 3, 2008 at 1:00 pm

Bill Kinnon has a great post here about Willow Creek’s Christmas production. He ponders the question of, “how much is too much?” when it comes to these kinds of presentations.

It is an accurate reflection of the consumer church engaged within the
world it thinks its in - competing for the same audiences as movies and
restaurants - audiences who expect to be entertained. Misreading
Scripture to believe that Jesus’ feeding of the 5,000 was a way to
attract and entertain large crowds only shows the poor exegetical
skills of the consumer church. (Note, the crowds were gathered to hear
Jesus. He fed them long after they’d gathered.) Willow Creek and the
other churches mentioned in the Tribune article truly feel that they
are sharing Christ in that entertainment.

It’s a great post that brings together several different threads that seem to connect with this idea.

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