Church of Tares: Purpose Driven, Seeker Sensitive, Church Growth & New World Order (2012 Video) User Reviews

Bashing big churches because they are big

[dlynnt2 · 1/10 · 9 July 2015]

Apparently, if your church is big, uses rock music for worship, or has services that are actually relevant and/or interesting to the unchurched, then your pastor is obviously a "seeker sensitive" heretic. I only made it about 30 minutes into this film, and the whole time I watched it, they were just bashing Rick Warren, Bill Hybels, Steven Furtick, and other successful pastors. While I don't agree with everything in Rick Warren's book The Purpose Driven Life, and it kinda baffles me that it has sold as many copies as it has, it kinda floors me that someone would expend as much time and energy as it took to make a documentary just to bash his reputation.

Guess the producers of this propagandistic church bashing "documentary" forgot the part in their Bible where Jesus said, "I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance." That's in Luke 5:32, by the way. If your church isn't interested in introducing unchurched, unsaved people to a new, righteous life in Jesus Christ, then why exactly are you around? That may explain why the producer of this documentary goes to small, irrelevant, and unproductive home churches that don't grow... Just a thought.

Not much of value to spoil here

[americanarmsdealer · 1/10 · 10 July 2015]

What's the first rule of propaganda? Tell a big lie often enough and loud enough and even YOU will begin to believe it's true. This propamentary is nothing but a hate filled diatribe about the evils of Rick Warren and how he has supposedly single-handedly supplanted and led astray the American Christian church with his heresy. I get that the producers of this film despise big churches and organized religion as a whole, but when you twist scripture and use video clips and sound bites completely out of context as further "evidence" of your agenda to attack the evil mega churches in America, you've completely lost your credibility as someone who has a legitimate concern for the health of the Christian church as a whole.

I guess Dr. David Yungi Cho's Yuido Full Gospel Church in South Korea only grew as Large as it is (with 800,000 members) through heretical teaching by a money grubbing pastor, as well? Successful growth isn't indicative of false teaching or doctrine. It's indicative of a truth-starved, spiritually dead culture and society that's looking for Truth.

Don't waste your time with this documentary, or the others that have been produced by this company. If you're a follower of Christ with a true, close, personal relationship with Him, The Father, and The Holy Spirit, you'll just feel violated, angry, and sad about the biased attack on the success of several churches in America simply because of their rapid growth and numbers. We need to remember this is a dying, fallen world, and each of those numbers has a name, and every name has a story.