Church’s Sermon Illustration Includes Acrobats and Aerial Silks Flying Above Congregants?
Church by the Glades in Coral Springs, FL, led by David Hughes, is the embodiment of instituting worldly entertainment in the pathetic hope of catching the attention of wayward goatlings and luring them into staying.
Known for their extravagant attempts to keep their members entertained, in the past few months alone, they played a cover of Run D.M.C’s sleazy and sexual song Walk this Way in church, performed Kendrick Lamar’s N95, only cleaned up and sanitized for church audiences, removing the curse words and racial epitaphs for a sermon illustration, put on a Willy Wonka Christmas worship service’ put on crazy ‘Baby Shark’ mashup during service, replete with smoke and canons! and put on an Addams family themed service.
During a service last year, as part of their sermon series The Power of Small, the worship band covered the song “What a World” by Kacey Musgraves, a noted LGBTQ activist while acrobats performed aerial stunts overhead. At the end, the worship leader straps herself in a swing and flies over the congregants, singing about her love for the world and her special someone:
Oh, what a world, don’t wanna leave
All kinds of magic all around us, it’s hard to believe
Thank God it’s not too good to be true
Oh, what a world, and then there is youDid I know you once in another life?
Are we here just once or a billion times?
Well, I wish I knew, but it doesn’t matter
‘Cause you’re here right now, and I know what I feel
