For Some Churches, No Gimmick Is Too Crass

Many of us live in contexts and cultures in which there is fierce competition among churches, each advertising itself as more interesting, more appealing, more entertaining than the others. It sometimes seems that no gimmick is too crass and no strategy too absurd for these churches as they attempt to one-up the others and fill their pews. Yet the Bible has little time for such novel and inventive strategies, for God tells us how we are to worship him. He makes it clear that our worship is to be