Why are church services usually boring?

[The Grand Nudger]

Southern baptist services, tent revivals, every last ass in the seat at a megachurch.  Plenty of people go to be entertained. Even those boring ass masses usually have a social component.

[arewethereyet]

Southern baptist services, tent revivals, every last ass in the seat at a megachurch.  Plenty of people go to be entertained.  Even those boring ass masses usually have a social component.

When my son was young he went to a tent revival with a classmate...scared the stuffing out of him.  He was about nine or ten...he was done with churches after that.

I suppose I may have some morbid fascination in the snake handling shows or even the slap in the head type faith healers.

[Drich]

When Scalia's funeral was held and televised my husband stopped on it for while when scrolling through the TV channels.  I hadn't been to a Catholic mass in decades.  I was sort of taken aback at how completely I remembered the layout of the mass.  The responses came automatically to mind.  Boring and burned into my brain.

@Drich

Who in your twisted little world goes to church to be entertained?

You don't know what you are babbling about.

Just because you are ignorant of curches who's purpose is to entertain, does not mean they do not exist here are two link and a video outlining church entertainment and a second video as an example of a "show/Worship service in ation.


https://churchleaders.com/pastors/pastor...orsen.html
https://truediscipleship.com/entertainme...he-church/





https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7pWzitIqZ8I

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Southern baptist services, tent revivals, every last ass in the seat at a megachurch.  Plenty of people go to be entertained.  Even those boring ass masses usually have a social component.

yes but the joel osteens of the world are not typically considered boring. Which goes back to what i said about people who are board look to be entertained.

[The Grand Nudger]

I disagree.  Joel Osteen is the very picture of a typically boring person. If he offered me money to listen to him talk, rather than his usual grift of taking money, I'd decline.

[Succubus]

yes but the joel osteens of the world are not typically considered boring. Which goes back to what i said about people who are board look to be entertained.

No, wait...

[robvalue]

I’ve heard this is actually deliberate, to numb the brain and put it into a docile state where it isn’t actively resisting all the words being preached. It’s a similar principle to advertisements on television.

[Drich]

I disagree.  Joel Osteen is the very picture of a typically boring person.  If he offered me money to listen to him talk, rather than his usual grift of taking money, I'd decline.

joel is an entertainer for one big reason is he is selling the prosperity gospel. Do good god will let you have anything you believe is rightfully yours. do bad God takes stuff from you. Do real bad and he will strike you down with illness or financial ruin.

While I do teach God blesses I also teach God sends the wind and rain to test your faith despite how 'good' you think you are. in fact I teach non are good and yet God still blesses us, that trials is apart of building and learning  while joel has taught that pain and suffering of any kind is a lack of faith.

As these are not biblical principles these teaching are little more than a form of entertainment, the reason it works is because we can never obtain the lifestyle joel claims is within our reach (being a good person) therefore no one can honesty claim the goods he says we are entitled to.

also aside from his sermon there are plays and skits performed in worship service along with a band/concert type of worship. it's hard to worship when the act is centered only on stage.

[The Grand Nudger]

Prosperity gospel has nothing to do with doing good, it has to do with giving the prosperity preacher money, lol.  That's the thing, though, he's a useless boring shit, it's the product he's selling keeps people in their seats.

He isn't much more than the guy who breaks in on African Queen and says "the phone lines are open, send money now".

[Drich]

Prosperity gospel has nothing to do with doing good, it has to do with giving the prosperity preacher money, lol.  That's the thing, though, he's a useless boring shit, it's the product he's selling keeps people in their seats.

He isn't much more than the guy who breaks in on African Queen and says "the phone lines are open, send money now".

and he has a whole church full of people 10,000 seats if i remember correctly who are indeed entertained by this type of thing. which is why I call this experience a entertainment experience not a church experience.