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Ruth,

This phenomena is nothing new to history. In fact about 160 years ago, the Rev. Charles Spurgeon wrote:

This is the suggestion of the present hour: If the world will not come to Jesus....Shall not the church go down to the world? Instead of bidding men to be converted, and come out from among sinners, and be separate from them, let us join with the ungodly world, enter into union with it, and so pervade it with our influence by allowing it to influence us. Let us have a Christian world.

Certain ministers are treacherously betraying our holy religion under pretense of adapting it to this present age. The new plan is to assimilate the church to the world by semi-dramatic performances they make the house of prayer to approximate to the theater; they turn their services into musical displays in fact, they exchange the temple for the theater, and turn the ministers of God into actors, whose business it is to amuce men. This then is the proposal. In order to win the world, the Lord Jesus must conform himself, his people, and his Word to the world. I will not dwell on so loathsome a proposal.

My dear hearers, how much I long to see you saved!! But I would not belie my Lord, even to win your souls, if they could be won so. The true servant of God is not responsible for success or non-success. Results are in God's hands. (see here: No Compromise

That same Spurgeon lamented on another occasion and spoke these words: Feeding Sheep or Amusing Goats.

And a more contemporary criticism of this buffoonery can be found here:

Church-O-Rama or Corporate Worship, by Monte E. Wilson and,

The Contemporary Church, by John Armstrong.

In His Grace,