At a highly popular New Zealand megachurch, Grace Vineyard Church, Easter Sunday isn’t about the resurrection of Christ. It’s about choreography, costume robes, and turning the King of kings into a glorified boy band frontman. In a recent stunt, they performed a “Backstreet Boys” parody called Jesus & the Boyz, where Jesus emerges from the tomb not in radiant glory, but apparently with a backup crew and a hook line:
“Everybody! Yeah! Join the party!” Because nothing says “He is risen” like repurposing late-90s bubblegum pop to entertain the masses with sensationalized blasphemy.
Picture a curly-haired Jesus sauntering in with a red sash and a casual “I’ve come back to life!” while Peter, John, and Thomas react like they’ve just seen NSYNC reunite in Jerusalem.
Worse, the lyrics read like they were churned out by a youth pastor who had one too many Red Bulls and a Spotify playlist from 1998. “We saw You die, thought it was the end”—as if Golgotha were just the cliffhanger before the next episode. The entire ordeal trivializes the crucifixion, mocks the resurrection, and somehow manages to degrade both theology and music in a single stroke.
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But this is what happens when churches stop preaching and start performing. When the pulpit becomes a stage, the gospel becomes a gimmick. At Grace Vineyard, Christ isn’t the Lion of Judah—He’s the lead singer of a cringeworthy resurrection musical.
These clowns aren’t reaching the lost—they’re auditioning for viral relevance, one parody video at a time. They don’t fear God, they fear being boring. And to them, reverence is just a buzzkill.
Are we really supposed to believe this glorified talent show is “spreading the gospel”? That Jesus died and rose again just so His name could be slapped into a pop melody and auto-tuned into oblivion? Was Golgotha a concert venue? Did the tomb roll away to a drumbeat? Are we now supposed to worship with jazz hands and fog machines while angels cringe in the wings?
Imagine if the apostles had seen this. Do we really believe they would just dance along to this? Of course not. They would’ve wept…and probably flipped some tables over. If this is what the modern church is offering, don’t be surprised when the world laughs. The tomb is empty, yes—but so is the theology at Grace Vineyard.
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