Faith Chapel Christian Center near Birmingham, Alabama, has opened a $26 million dollar entertainment center. The facility features a 12-lane bowling alley, a basketball court, a fitness center, a banquet hall and cafe, a teen dance club, and an adult alcohol and smoke-free night club. Pastor Michael Moore explains the name of the facility, The Bridge, as follows: "We believe we can really meet the needs of the community. It will bridge people from the world to the Kingdom."
This is beyond foolish and ridiculous. It is apostasy. There is no hint in Christ's Great Commission about entertaining unbelievers or bringing them to the gospel through an entertainment program. The command of Christ does not teach churches to entice sinners through worldly means; it commands the churches to go and preach to sinners. America is already entertained to death, and most churches are merely Christianized versions of the world. There are Christianized sports programs, Christianized social media, Christianized rock music. Whatever the world has, there is a Christianized version of it. The result has been less spiritual power and influence than ever. "If we win people with sensationalism we will need sensationalism to keep them. People who come for loaves and fishes have to be kept with loaves and fishes" (John Phillips).