Church by the Glades in Coral Springs, FL, is the embodiment of instituting worldly entertainment in the pathetic hope of catching the attention of wayward goatlings and luring them into staying. During new sermon series based on the Pixar Film “Up” service, the 8000- member Southern Baptist megachurch led by David Hughes continues its celebration of all things fleshly with a mashup of rapper Eminem and hip hop artist Ciara.
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’ and put on crazy ‘Baby Shark’ mashup during service, replete with smoke and canons!
This is not part of the sermon illustration, but rather is purely meant to entertain. Their service outline includes several worship songs, announcements, a secular cover song, frequently with all the curse words and sex and violence modified out, and then the sermon.
Senior pastor and Chief Entertainer David Hughes previously offered that they are a “hyper-creative church,” and they embrace a “whatever it takes” mentality in order to “entice a lot of families to come check out our church.”
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.
With the Eminem portion, they sing his “Lose yourself” hit, though this is not a true cover as they frequently have the real artist playing as part of the backing track. For Ciara’s Level up, some of the lyrics include:
All this on me, so yummy, all this oh so yummy
You know you want this yummy, yummy all in your tummy
Level up, level up, level up, level up, level up
Level up, level up, level up, level up, level up
All this on me, so yummy, all this oh so yummy
You know you want this yummy, yummy all in your tummyThem old mistakes are gone, I won’t do them no more
That’s old news, there’s new news, I done did that before
I turned nothing to something, my comeback on one hunnid’
Less talking, more action, you just gon’ CiCi coming
I just keep elevating, no losses, just upgrading
My lessons, made blessings, I turned that into money
Thank God I never settled, this view is so much better
I’m chilling, I’m winning, like on another level
