Part of what Willow's Reveal survey showed is that dumping resources into production--the Sunday morning "show"--is a two-edged sword. On the one hand, we desire to give God our best and represent him well. If we show up on Sunday morning and offer up music we haven't rehearsed and a sermon that isn't well prepared, we dishonor God and seekers walk away thinking that the God we tout as worthy of our all isn't even worthy of above-minimal effort. In this our actions really do speak louder than our preaching.
The flip side, though, is that when we put all our eggs into the basket of the Sunday morning production we inadvertently give in to one of the biggest ills of our culture and biggest threats to spiritual maturity--consumerism.
How do we strike a balance between christotainment and bland irrelevance?
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