When a true believer goes to church on Sunday morning, the expectation is that the Scriptures will be opened, read, and taught. The expectation is that God will be honored and worshiped in spirit and in truth. And that the Word of God will convict of us our sin and encourage us in our walk, pointing us to the cross and drawing us near to Him.

Yet, for the vast majority of churches, that is not the case. Charles Spurgeon once predicted that “A time will come when instead of shepherds feeding the sheep, the church will have clowns entertaining the goats!” Of course, that time has long passed already, and we’re now in the phase of outright blasphemy. It’s not only clowns entertaining goats, it’s ascribing these irreverent things to God as though He is behind them.

We’ve reported numerous times on Church by the Glades—a Southern Baptist mega-goat farm in Florida that exists for the sole purpose of entertaining goats on Sunday morning through its absurd and ridiculous cover performances of secular music and calling it “worship.” But another phenomenon in Evangelical churches is finding “gospel themes” in secular movies. The Gospel Coalition is notorious for this and one of its main contributors has gone as far as to admit watching movies and television with homosexual sex scenes in them in order to advance the gospel.

This trend has spread like cancer within Evangelical circles, and now the expectation is that when one walks into church on Sunday morning, the pastor will bring the culture into the pulpit and expound upon it, affirm it, praise it, and send the congregation out to do the same. That’s exactly what Journey Church in New York has been doing. For its summer series, the pastor, Kerrick Thomas, has been preaching sermons on various movies, and the most recent sermon was on the Barbie film.

This movie, which I have not seen and have zero inclination to, reportedly promotes feminism and depicts in a positive light several things which any Christian should denounce, including pre-marital cohabitation, drunkenness, and cursing. But what’s worse is the pastor is using this movie, not the word of God, as the basis for his sermon. The entire sermon is drawn from the movie with little reference to Scripture. Here are a few clips I grabbed: