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When Your Church Resembles A Night Club
PimpPreacher.com New Orleans 11/08/2011
The latest trend that is sweeping New Age type churches is this concept of seemingly totally progressive and in tune with today’s youth. I am now fully convinced that a church can reach a point whereas it has become too hip, too cool, and diffidently too “off the chain.”
I can completely understand having a ministry that is appealing to the youth of today, but many of our youth are in severe need of structure and guidance. When a ministry has reached a point where the youth within the congregation are not challenged to change then that level of conformity is extremely detrimental to their Christian walk.
City Of Love Church In New Orleans
Such is the case with City of Love Church in New Orleans Louisiana, where Bishop Lester Love is the Pastor. For those of us from the old Greater St. Stephens click, we still refer to Bishop Love as we know him, Elder Lester Love.
Elder Love was a vital part of Bishop Paul S. Morton ministers’ alliance and perhaps his go to man for most of the 1990’s. It was at Greater St. Stephens that I feel Pastor Love learned the art of taking a small church and turning it into a mega church.
One of the ills of having a covering is you have the tendency to absorb a lot of the bad qualities of your spiritual father, such is the case with Pastor Love. In an attempt to appeal to the masses, and grow in member by any means necessary, Pastor Love committed one of the biggest no no’s in pastoring, he sold out.
Sold out to the pressure to seem like the premiere church, sold out to the need to be accepted, sold out on the standards of being an example, sold out the opportunity to redirect the youth in his congregation, and sold out on demonstrating Christian leadership.
Back That Thing Up In Church
To celebrate the opening of their new church, Bishop Love decided to turn the entire sanctuary of his church into a night club. As if that wasn’t bad enough, there is even a DJ in the exact same place that would normally be considered the pulpit. New Orleans is famous for producing artist like Lil Wayne, Juvenile, and DJ Jubilee. Guess who was the DJ at this church Party? DJ Jubilee!
I am so embarrassed by this video, and even more embarrassed that it took place in my city. The lesson to all Pastors who are under the pressure to seem really cool to a 16 year old is there is a real area called “gone too far.” This church party went so far, that when I first viewed this video I thought that it was an actual night club. As a matter of fact I asked my brother what club was that?
He screamed in an octave that would make even Phillip Bailey jealous, “this is Lester Love’s church!” I said no way, he replied “yes it is because I got a call at 1 am while this was going on.”
Guys this really is a church, that is really a DJ in the pulpit, and they are really “walking it like a dog” in what should be a House of Prayer and Worship.
Just went you think you have seen it all – I’m speechless!
By: TJ - Church Folk Revolution
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A beautiful picture.
