In the past half decade, some of America’s largest evangelical churches have employed worldly gimmicks like slapstick, vaudeville, wrestling exhibitions, and even mock striptease to spice up their Sunday meetings. No brand of horseplay, it seems, is too outrageous to be brought into the sanctuary. Burlesque is fast becoming the liturgy of the pragmatic church.
– John MacArthur
Christ Alone Wyoming 
Ah yes, the powerful quote of Dr. MacArthur from Word Pictures, I believe…Pitifully sad yet powerfully true
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Actually I got it from his book Ashamed of the Gospel: When the Church Becomes Like the World.
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Really? He said the same thing on that show as well. I’ll pick up a copy of the book as well. Thanks for the hat-tip, Pilgrim!
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