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August 29th, 2011
01:59 PM ET
Texas pastor opens drive-in churchA pastor outside Dallas has launched a drive-in church that operates along the same lines as a drive-in movie theater: Congregants stay in their vehicles and tune in to the sermon on their car radios. Sanctuary Under the Sky, which meets in a high school parking lot in Lucas, Texas, is the third outdoor church launched by Pastor David Ray, according to CNN Dallas/Fort Worth affiliate WFAA. Ray, a Presbyterian, told WFAA that he's trying to reach the unchurched and that he believes Jesus would approve of his approach. "I think he would like it. His stuff was outdoors," Ray said. "A lot of trouble he had was indoors." One congregant who attended the service on Sunday told WFAA that she's not a fan of mega-churches, preferring to worship alone. |
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This trivializes church...and this is good. He should open more of these.
Wicked....wicked.......that is not what the body of Christ should do.
The problem is the church adjusts to make sinners comfortable.
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X3ZcZ2h4Ths&w=640&h=390]
Drive through "Christianity".....
Hosea 11:7...though they call to the Most High, none at all exalt Him
I'd like to pull up to this service and start blasting some satanic death metal music on my car stereo.
THESE PEOPLE ARE LUNATICS! So sit in your car, running, creating pollution with the AC blasting while someone spews lies from an outdated book of grossly exaggerated stories. WOW! Hey, I've got some snake oil and magic beans to sell, step right up! The magic beans will give you VIP access to the exclusive CLUB IN THE SKY after you kick the bucket. Can we prove any of this? Nope, but I just so happen to have a book of odd outdated grammar that has lots of poetry to back up my outlandish claims. So that makes it real. HURRY while LIES, er, ah, I mean SUPPLIES last.
Thank everything good in this world that you're not a comedian. That bean joke got old after the first 200 times you said it. But please, go on. It makes you look like a bona fide genius.
@NoMoreBeans
C'mon man, that snake oil and those magic beans are HOT SELLERS ( my point is that people will buy or believe anything if you can hype it and create a sensationalism around it while getting their emotions involved. )
I'll take a hamburger, fries, and a bottle of holy water, please...
From the Article:
" Ray, a Presbyterian, told WFAA that he's trying to reach the unchurched and that he believes Jesus would approve of his approach.
"I think he would like it. His stuff was outdoors," Ray said. "A lot of trouble he (Jesus) had was indoors."
Hmmm... I'm not so sure that Jesus would agree, I mean that whole "Crucifixion" deal was 'outdoors.'
Peace...
Ya know, I just don't get into the true Christian mood unless I can see a DEAD CORPSE NAILED TO TWO BOARDS. I feel so much closer to the mythical Jesus character when I can see torture devices such as the crucifix. MAN ALIVE does that ever give me all kinds of warm fuzzies.
@EnergyBeing3
LOL...!!! Ya know, -EnergyBeing... I'm with ya' on that. I've never quite understood the need to wear the 'torture devices' around one's neck either...?
Regards,
Peace...
No need to dress up. The comfy seat with the recline option is nice for the dry or long winded sermon. Don't forget the snacks.
how low have these people sunk...? best wishes to those who seek purpose in this spiritual being of yours...seriously.
Um... not sure if you noticed but there wasn't exactly a FULL PARKING LOT there. But I love how they show the old lady walking up to the cars with her MONEY PLATE. I've got a great imagination, I can also make up stories, grossly exaggerated, about the Universe and how people should behave (because most people don't understand the basics of respect, kindness or compassion, these are extremely difficult concepts), then they can give me money. COOL!
Lazy Americans. Such practice is not honoring God, not fellowshiping and bad to brains. Obesity will get worse.
I have to agree with Adelina though...American christians are simply pathetic.
Anti-, no, American Christians are the best. We need to fight against our own laziness.
Oh..... wow.
"She is turned off by mega churches and group settings. She prefers a more 'intimate' setting"
Your in you FREAKING car!!!!!!! Theres NOTHING intimate about this. This is just another example of Christians turning church into a show, an entertainment center, attraction center.
There are PLENTY forms of Brainwashing and Entertainment to get those false warm fuzzies. This is just another one.
========LAUGH====================== Laugh if you wish, but Robert Shuller was able to build the Crystal Cathedral right down the street. Maybe you could build The Crystal Dome MaDondal's. ==============================
Bo yes, but Shuller most likely got a huge tax advantage over Macky Dees...mind you if we make Ronald Mc a supernatural visitor perhaps....
==========@CJ========================= yes, this is the way Robert got started , Orange Grove Drive-in. accross the street from the Orange County Hospital where my daughter was born–remember it well. Never went to either the movies or the church.
It's nice that someone is offering the option to hear the Bible's message without having to interact with all of those other Christians.
I've always thought that church would be great if it weren't for all the believers.
They may as well stay home to worship... Lazy sheeple.
Whenever you see a post that includes the words "sheeple" or "WAKE UP!", or has -tard added to the group the poster has villified for everything, then you know you are dealing with a complete moron, and you don't have to read any further.
Do you know some better descriptive terms for Christians other than retards, sheeple and morons? If there was anything to your religion most everyone would be a Christian, but there isn't anything to your beliefs and most people aren't Ohhhhh you want to offer some statistics eh? Your Christian organizations drive around gathering stats and filling out forms, asking questions and polling the people...nothing biased about these results eh? Fact is, atheism has a firm grip in America and good decent people are beginning to speak up. There is no such thing as a good, decent moral Christian son...he purportedly died on the cross (torture device).
Isn't this how Robert Schuller started?
I suggest a Christ like clown at the entrance! Call the whole thing McJesus!
For only 39 cents more, you can super size your born again experience!
Pfui!
Cheers!
I am not sure if I like this idea. Now teenagers will come to church just to make out.
And then they'll claim the Holy Spirit is rocking the vehicle.
Two ways to answer this one....
1) And that would be different... how? (You must have gone to the wrong church!)
2) Sounds like a church I wish I went to!
Okay, only a Christian boy would be dumb enough to bring a girl to church services expecting to make out. Not exactly the right environment to get them in the mood.
When I read the headline I was totally imagining someone driving up to a speaker and saying, "Yes...ummm...I'd like some Corinthians...and...uhhhh...can I get Ezra super-sized?"
And the speaker responding in a warbling, indistinct voice, "Would you like some Psalms with that?"
Haha yeah I think that would be a Drive- THROUGH church :P. Admittedly I made the same mistake though... hence the screen name.