Our falling attendance on Sunday morning, our failing churches, and our growing concern for the future has created a fear-reaction against the possibility of mediocrity. We are willing to sell out to anything that looks trendy in order to boost our attendance. We give into any fad or gimic that will fill the offering plate. We create the X-treme church. Instead of worshipping the Jesus Christ, suffering servant Son of God, we rally around Jesus Christ Super Star.
Church services transform into entertainment spectacles.
The church service is nothing more than a talent show. Sure some people buy it. From X-treme to Authentic For the churches trying to do postmodernism, you are missing the point. Postmodernism is the context we work in, not the goal. And this cannot be solved simply by pursuing a postmodern paradigm.