Besides Saddleback, there is Willow Creek Community Church in Illinois, they are both large churches that draw upwards of 20,000 people a week through their doors. They are kind of like Buick and Oldsmobile, they are different, but they are not! They both have church affiliates in every city, all over the world. They have taken over or established over 14,000 churches worldwide.

Read their list of facilities and events and you will see; coffee shops, bands, orchestras, game rooms, theaters, multi media theaters, plays, and all along with "music programmed for a purpose".

Read their qualifications for a "Praise Leader". You must be able to lead bands, and orchestras, direct large performances, and coordinate all aspects of the "Worship Experience"

But nowhere will you find knowledge of the gospel of Jesus Christ as a dominate qualification.

I ask you, “Is this not ‘Hip and Entertaining’?”

But, don't take my word for it. There are hundreds of these "community church" affiliates here in Tennessee. Sure they used to be Baptist, Presbyterian, Methodist, and even Churches of Christ. The three big ones in the Nashville area are:

"The Christ Church”, Nashville
"The Peoples Church" in Franklin,
and the premier homosexual church in Nashville,
The "Metropolitan Community Church". (MCC Nashville)

My secretary told me this week that she got a prerecorded phone announcement from the Cornerstone Church, here in Madison, inviting her to "Illustrated Services" on Sunday, where there will be FREE pop corn and peanuts and a chance to win $15,000

See, for yourself, if they aren't replacing solid worship with entertainment. If that is not what they are doing, then tell me what these churches represent in a worship style?

HOW COULD THIS HAPPEN -- HOW DO YOU KNOW WHERE WE ARE HEADED?

The signs have been there we just did not know how to interpret them. Gary McDade of the Getwell Church of Christ in Memphis said; "The Community Church begins as a parasite feeding off a thriving organism.” and "Older, established churches of Christ are funding the vehicle of their demise when they support the Community Church."

This thing has spread from the very Colleges and Universities that we support! Plus they send "planters" out to seed the "Community Church" programming. They have taken over churches so many times, which if you read the following you will recognize the signs.

Their elaborate plans start with a slow and gradual "seeding" that starts in a classroom, using materials from the "community church". It spreads like a slow moving cancer. Soon there is a building program to facilitate the expected growth. The building program is never really explained why it's needed to the church body, but they will be asked to pay for it.