David Hughes, the “pastor” of SBC Megachurch, Church by the Glades in Coral Springs, FL, has turned this “church” into nothing short of a circus. Instead of feeding souls with the gospel, as usual, they were more concerned with putting on a show. When a church trades the pulpit for a stage and the Bible for theatrics, you know you’ve completely lost it in terms of what church should be.

This past Sunday, Church by the Glades reached a new low by “worshiping” to Mariah Carey’s insipid and overplayed holiday jingle, “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” Yes, the same mind-numbing, headache-inducing, overplayed tune blasted through every shopping mall and car commercial in December was deemed suitable as a worship offering to God. If the goal was to make the worship of Christ indistinguishable from the clamor of a secular holiday playlist, mission accomplished.

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But this is hardly a first for David Hughes and his stage crew. This is the same church that once opened a “worship” service with Kendrick Lamar’s explicit track “N95,” a song riddled with profanity and godless rhetoric. And who could forget the Sunday rave where DJ John Summit—a known promoter of drug culture—provided the soundtrack? That wasn’t worship; it was a nightclub with better lighting.

The spectacle doesn’t end there. They’ve gone full Disney with a rendition of The Little Mermaid and used the occasion of Martin Luther King Jr. Day to sing Beyoncé’s “Freedom,” an ode to worldly empowerment rather than godly truth. They’ve even managed to desecrate their stage with a cover of Lady Gaga’s “Shallow,” swung from the rafters to Kacey Musgraves’ “What a World,” and pumped out the nihilistic anthem “Only Happy When it Rains” by Garbage. How these choices advance the proclamation of Christ crucified remains a mystery.

And then there was their so-called “family” celebration, featuring Sister Sledge’s LGBTQ anthem, “We Are Family.” Of course, why stop there? Hughes seems determined to drag every worldly influence possible into his services, serving it up as though God should accept this noise as worship. The church’s embrace of secular pop culture has become so egregious that you’d be forgiven for mistaking their “services” for a talent show audition—though even America’s Got Talent might balk at the sheer absurdity on display.

Whoever thought this was just harmless creativity does not know the actual Creator of all things. It’s not “meeting people where they are.” It’s spiritual pandering of the worst kind. Church by the Glades has taken what is holy and turned it into a farce. Instead of exalting Christ, they exalt culture. Instead of worshiping in spirit and truth, they bow to entertainment and relevancy.

Worship is meant to glorify God, to lift our hearts and minds heavenward in reverence and awe. But in this house of theatrics, reverence is an afterthought—if it’s thought of at all. The congregation is fed a steady diet of noise and spectacle, starving them of the gospel and leaving them spiritually malnourished. This is what happens when the church forgets its purpose. This is what happens when pastors like David Hughes turn the sanctuary into a stage.

It’s time to stop calling this a church. Call it a variety show, a cultural experiment, or a misguided marketing scheme—but don’t call it a church. The Bride of Christ deserves better than this shallow, irreverent display. And so does the Lord of glory, whose name should never be profaned in such a manner.