I have no idea and was hoping that you could tell me!

River City Church on their “I’m new, what should I expect?” page boasts that they are “fun, exciting, powerful, and relevant.” But why the mushroom cloud?

Are they attempting to equate that they are somehow as powerful as a nuclear explosion? I don’t see the connection.

Perhaps what they’re trying to say is: Whenever a nuclear device detonates, it drastically changes the world around it for the worse. In the same way, when we (another seeker-friendly, market-driven, shallow church) come to your neighborhood we leave a lasting and devastating spiritual impact by creating countless false converts.

If that’s the similarity that this church is trying to convey, then I’d have to agree with them. The spiritual debris that churches like this leave in their wake is similar to the human debris a nuclear bomb leaves in its wake. Both a nuclear blast and a candy-coated “gospel” destroy the lives of anyone that is near them, and their effects can be measured far from where they originated.

Maybe that’s precisely the message that they’re trying get across. What do you think?