How about a little pop culture perspective on church shopping and the ever-popular mega-church? Check out this clip of the Hill family going church shopping on King of the Hill and ending up at a local mega-church that even has a tram to the sanctuary. Hilarious.
Oh, and it’s an important social commentary on the relevance of churches and a valuable avenue to vicariously experience the perspective of a church shopper. Yeah, that it. (link via Garth from our comments)
Anthony D. Coppedge
May 11, 2006
Holy smokes….they NAILED it. This should be required viewing at Seminary. :)
emergingblurb
May 11, 2006
there is code at the site to embed this into your blog if anyone wishes!
Clayton Bell
May 12, 2006
What an awesome video.
Luke
May 12, 2006
There was also a King of the Hill where Bobby was forced to join a Church youth group, and the youth group turned out to be full of great Christians but not Hanks idea of conservative, young, “good” Christian youth.
Greg
May 13, 2006
i like the tram. reminds me of fellowship of the woodlands…
paul
May 13, 2006
i thought that was a classic display of how great the church/body of christ is. hank was unhappy (pew dispute) at his church but did not want to leave.his wife had vision/style conflicts as well. when he asked at work if anybody knew of a good church, his co-workers all thought theirs was great. the pentacostal, catholic, hard core, and metal church. they did not fit into any of these but his wife wanted to try the mega, with all it’s features. hank doesn’t want to go but finds home when he tries it. people were passionate, worshiping, involved and reaching out at all styles. hank’s daughter even pointed out that the church hank went to was a ”good church” but he was disloyal. maybe he was, maybe he just did not fit there. maybe the most spiritual one of the bunch was the boyfried who said church goes with him where ever he is at. he worships when he has a beer or digs a ditch, goes fishing. and maybe hanks right in saying that’s asinine. maybe it’s both. worshiping god drinking a beer and as a member of the community of faith, whatever your preference size, shape or style. preference is not a sin, i dare say we will still have preferences in our resurrected bodies on our resurrected earth, but we won’t have predudices. a predudice is rooted in the sin of pride.we can have preference for a church style today, but god help us from the pride that say’s my way is better, supperior, more spiritual than yours.
Kevin Jones
May 15, 2006
The episode with the Christian youth group had Hank’s classic message for Christian rock: “Can’t you see you’re not making Christianity better, you’re just making Rock n’ Roll Worse?”
Regarding that great film clip, I’m tempted to substitute “consumerism” for rock, but that would be unnuanced and disrespectful, wouldn’t it?
Julia Warkentin
June 6, 2006
The Mega Church in the clip is inviting. It did seem to have something for everyone. My questions is why do the Hills go to church at all? It seems to me that it is for the same reason as the Simpsons. They go because everyone goes and if they didn’t they would be looked down upon.
Is our goal to fill the seats in our church or is it to fill the hearts of the people with a love for God? Is the football player pastor a spirit filled man leading people into a deeper relationship with Christ? Or an advocate for Sunday Afternoon Football?
Church marketing is a complicated issue but if Christ is the centre of all that we do the rest falls into place.