Gospel Prism

Hmmmmm….would you like to know what some churches are doing to win seekers to their worship. Here’s what I read from Founders Ministries Blog. Hold on to your lunch:

This is the way a local church advertized a special worship service this past weekend. According to a newspaper article, some of the songs that “attendees [sang] along to” were “Eight Days a Week,” “You’ve Got to Hide Your Love Away” and “Let it Be.” The pastor is quoted as saying, “This is part of who we are as Lutherans….It’s commonly understood that some of the many hymns that Martin Luther wrote, the music was music that was common everyday music–even bar tunes. So we are only keeping Luther’s tradition going.” I can just hear Luther saying, “Yeah, yeah, yeah.”

The church’s musical director is quoted as explaining the rationale behind this special service: “We are taking the secular and putting it into the sacred.” Mission accomplished.

I don’t know what to do, laugh, cry, or just feel plain ole aghast.