‘U Can’t Touch This?’ SBC Church Plays M.C. Hammer, Beyoncé, AC/DC Medley During Service
Church by the Glades in Coral Springs, FL, above and beyond all other congregations, exemplifies the use of worldly entertainment and ear-scratching techniques in the pathetic hope of catching the attention of wayward goatlings.
Known for their extravagant attempts to keep their members entertained, the 8000-member Southern Baptist megachurch frequently features secular songs in their services, having a repertoire that includes a Beyonce song about Dominatrixes, a cover of Run D.M.C’s sleazy and sexual song Walk this Way in church, performing Kendrick Lamar’s N95, only cleaned up and sanitized for church audiences, removing the curse words and racial epitaphs for a sermon illustration, putting on a Willy Wonka Christmas worship service’ and having a crazy ‘Baby Shark’ mashup during service, replete with smoke and canons!
In a newly unearthed video from their May 2019 sermon series “Heroes, Villains, and Sidekicks,” the church did a five-song medley to get the congregants pumped up and primed for the preaching, singing Taylor Swift’s Look What You Made Me Do, Estelle/Kanye West’s ‘American Boy,’ AC/DC’s Back in Black, M.C. Hammer’s U Can’t Touch This, and Beyoncé’s Run the World (Girls.)
It’s shameful as it is unsurprising. Lead impastor David Hughes has previously rationalized including these sorts of segments as part of his liturgy and services with this phenomenally stupid bible twist:
The church should have a show- every weekend we should have a show. I’ll tell you why. For my super spirituals right now, don’t log off, because Jesus promised and Matthew’s Gospel that anytime two or three or more would gather in his name, he would SHOW.
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