“You can’t stop it. Coming to a town near you….” This video parody would be be funnier if it didn’t get so close to the matter of what, tragically, is going on in so many Christian churches across much of America and the western world today. “We call it… ‘Contemporvant.’” “For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but wanting to have their ears tickled, they will accumulate for themselves teachers in accordance to their own desires and will turn away their ears from the truth, and will turn aside to myths.” 2 Timothy 4:3-4 [NAS] Many seekers and professed Christians are presenting themselves in “modern” or “mega” churches needing to be fed the Gospel message and are going away hungry, lost. Here’s the link. of a resource explaining the damaging pattern of church growth, a primer on the foundation of the ‘movement’ at Saddleback Church and Rick Warren. In 1998, Dr Dennis Costella attended a PDC seminar where Rick Warren taught that the following had to occur to transform a traditional church into a growing PDC (purpose driven church): A contemporary-styled, non-threatening “Seeker Service” must replace the traditional Sunday worship service; The dress must be Continue reading →
