In the last ten years these other meetings have languished, but we've given our morning services quite a facelift. And the people like it. New people are coming in. We're getting lively music, neat sound equipment, cool spotlights, quality dramas, need-oriented preaching, and magnificent musicals. Morale is up.
Attendance is up.
Or, do we have bigger and bigger audiences who come to watch the performance, but don't get serious about real Christian commitment. Even after we have gotten people 'converted,' many still act and think about the same as they did before they were converted. It's probably the fastest-growing class of Christians in the last decade or so. These folk claim to be saved, but don't let religion cramp their style. They are consumers, breezing through churches as they would a salad bar, picking and choosing what appeals to them, leaving the rest alone.