It’s funny to me in a sad sort of way when I see fundamentalists who really seem to think that their completely contrived, man-centered, and numbers-driven evangelistic efforts are the TRUE BIBLICAL WAY.
What Jeff Fugate is fighting here isn’t heresy but rather competition from what he imagines is a better equipped sales force. What’s more, I doubt that Jeff could actually define what the “emergent church” is if his life depended on it.
Is this parody or a serious replacement of Jesus with man-made standards?
Plenty of fundies are liking this one on Facebook so at least some people apparently think this is for real.
A promo video for Hyles-Anderson that makes no mention of either Jack Hyles or fundamentalism.
In fact, they don’t reference Baptists, separation, the King James Bible or pretty much anything else that they usually harp on.
Looks like somebody is making an effort at serious rebranding. Although not serious enough to realize that showing college students playing board games as “entertainment” is probably not going to play well in general.
“Dr.” Jenkins threw out these numbers recently:
So even accounting for the number of people who got saved while visiting from out of town, one would think that this church should now be at LEAST the largest church in the area.
And yet their auditorium sure doesn’t look like it holds 10,000 people.
So…where are they hiding all this growth? I’ve heard of the “church invisible” but this seems to be a bit much.
I really have no idea. No, seriously. I just have no clue what inspired this or what it is supposed to me.