On December 15th the was "The Hope of Christmas" christmas show in downtown Elmira at Wisner Park, that some of the Cottt churches took part in. The show had drama, dance and music among other things, and was billed as free and open to the public, Fun for the whole family! Well it was certainly free and open to the public and that is as good as it gets. My wife and I spent less than 5 minutes there and had to leave, for fear of loosing our lunch. The choice of music was lousy and played at volumes that only rock music should be played, and the drama... What the heck is that anyway?! Horrible music playing with people on stage acting out a skit, and sometimes set to banner and flag waving. There is only 2 maybe 3 Churches that do this kind of thing and only a handful of people in those churches that actually enjoy it. So why does anyone need to see this in public on the streets in Elmira?

What ever happened to "...compel them to come in." You have a once a year opportunity to attract people to your churches and instead you blare Hillsong music that's been long overplayed for years, that attracts who? a handful of out of touch christians? I have been a christian for 25 years and my wife has been in church all her life and we both wanted to leave as soon as we got there. If we detested this that much then how about the poor folks in the Mark Twain Tower that from the comfort of their own homes was forced to hear something that I have a hard time choking down.

Be irresistible!!! You had a chance to get outside the four walls of comfort but you refused to think outside of that box. Why is there no church growth? The only growth we see is the same old recycled christians going from one church to the next trying to find something to feed on because they are starving, all to have this to feed on.

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