Wales Church to Hold ‘Dr Who’ Service

This (below) is what the ultimate outcome can be if we allow ourselves to loose our focus on Jesus Christ and the Word of God in our services. Things like this do not happen overnight. They are the result of a gradual and long-term slide away from what the core value of any church should be; to glorify and honor God in all it does.

It takes a long time for a church to get to the point that they think an activity like this is consistent with its' goal of turning the culture's attention to God, thus honoring Him. When we begin staging 'Dr. Who" services, our goal has become to turn the church's attention on the culture. We even try to explain the logic of it by saying something like, "Well at least Dr. Who can travel through time and even though Jesus can't....well He's kind of a timeless guy anyway."

Dr Who Service
by Daniel Blake

A Cardiff church is set to host a ‘Doctor Who’ communion service aimed at rousing the interest of younger congregants.
St Paul's Church in Grangetown, Cardiff, will conduct the "cafe-style" service for people in their teens and early 20s, and will feature music and clips from the hit television show.
One of the organisers Fr Dean Atkins, said the church would use parallels with the way Doctor Who is portrayed, pointing out that the series held him up as "almost a Messiah figure".
Fr Atkins, youth officer with the Diocese of Llandaff, was quoted by the BBC as saying: "In the series there are lots of references to salvation and the doctor being almost immortal.
"We are using the figure of Doctor Who as a parable of Christ."
The language used in the series is also another helpful link in the church exploring the Christian faith, he said.
He added: "Christ is a kind of cosmic figure as well if you like, somebody who does not travel through time but all eternity is found in him.
"He is a kind of encapsulation of the beginning and the end, in fact he existed before time began and he will exist when time ends."
Parish priest Fr Ben Andrews told the BBC: "I love the series and it has such a great following that we couldn't resist doing something for young people on a Doctor Who theme.
"Lots of people think that young people are the future of the church.
"This kind of event will show they are part of the church of the present and have an important part to play in its future. We are building on the past but always looking forward."
The service takes place on 23 September at 1830 BST.

There's a mega-church in Chicago that has a Sunday morning service that is based solely on the music and writing of U2 and Bono. It is attended quite heavily and, by all measures, successful. Successful if you're criteria for success is how many people you can place in the seats. I wonder how successful watching "Dr. Who" clips and reciting the words to 'The Streets Have No Names" is at placing people in God's kingdom?