It is unfortunate but many of the people attending “Christian” religious services are doing so to be entertained. On Sunday mornings they go to “the church of their choice” to hear choirs sing songs on a professional level. The band that plays high-energy religious songs is at a level that could play on just about any stage in Branson, Missouri. The preacher will present a lesson almost guaranteed to send you home feeling good about yourself. It is all very entertaining, but it isn’t scripture. A lot of the members of the Lord’s church would agree that the groups who do the things just described are not worshiping properly. Unfortunately, they don’t seem to be aware that many congregations of the Lord’s church have already taken the first step on the path that these community churches are on. The first step down the “religion as entertainment” road is taken when people start to view worship as a spectator sport rather than something each Christian must do. We must be active in worship, not passive spectators; worship is something we give, not something we get. God is the audience, not us. This passive attitude is dangerous in worship and other areas of the church. “Someone needs to be doing things, but don’t ask me” they seem to say. “We have elders and deacons and bible class teachers to do these things.” In Ephesians 4:14-16 the apostle Paul says, “that we should no longer be children, tossed to and fro and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting, but, speaking the truth in love, may grow up in all things into Him who is the head—Christ—from whom the whole body, joined and knit together by what every joint supplies, according to the effective working by which every part does its share, causes growth of the body for the edifying of itself in love.” The apostle Paul makes it plain here that everyone must do something. We don’t all have to do the same job, but we must do something. We don’t have the same talents, but we use what we have to further the gospel and edify the church. “That there should be no schism in the body, but that the members should have the same care for one another.” (1 Corinthians 12:25).