Slice of Laodicea

I received this particularly poignant paragraph from a male Slice reader in an email today. I ask you, when did this happen? How did it come to this? How did orthodox Christian worship move to teen girls dancing to pop tunes on stage? Looking back at evangelical history in this country, I know Tozer warned about entertainment coming in, but there is no way that even he could have envisioned just how bad things would get. These things didn’t start overnight. We didn’t move from singing doctrinal truth and Scripture to teen girls shaking their body parts to pop tunes in front of a cheering audience. It was incremental and it started in the pulpits. Sick theology produces sick everything else in churches. Poison roots? Poison fruits.

…I waited the 20 minutes because the first 35 minutes of the service was spent with the youth minister “leading worship” which consisted of teens (mostly girls) dancing to secular pop tunes and altered classics by modern leaders (re:  Tomlin, Redman, et al).  The congregation cheered as the teens danced to the music.  I’m sorry but I am not in church to watch teen girls dance to pop tunes.  If I wanted that I could go to the dance studio, not a house of worship.