KFC is like McDonald's

KFC - Kentucky Fried Church

KFC is a tongue in the cheek reference to the typical churches we see everywhere across town. Not everything said here is 100 % true about each local church, and we don't say it to be nasty or overly critical. However church life is critical for Christian growth and KFC does a pretty bad of it, sorry to say.

Jesus said that new wine (the gospel) must be in a new wineskin (church life and structure) and if we put the new wine in an old skin, or a bottle then we will lose the wine.

37. “And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; or else the new wine will burst the wineskins and be spilled, and the wineskins will be ruined.38. “But new wine must be put into new wineskins, and both are preserved.

Luke 5:37-38

KFC has the following features

Building
Stage/Pulpit with professional pulpiteer
Service/show
Band
Pastortute
Lots of sweet little Christians
Programs
Kiddies Church
Youth
Bible school
Missions
Bank Account
Board of Elders

Most Christians were born into KFC and think is a powerful and biblical version of church.

Typical Theology of KFC

Attendance
Tithing
Submitting to the pastor
Alter calls
Missions
Programs
Superstition and fear of leaving
Shallow sentimental theology that doesn’t require any real growth
Theory of priesthood of all believers but not practiced in any real depth
Mild sense of sectarianism

These features are not equally strong in various local KFC but do outline the typical dynamic.

also see Genetically Modified Church

Seeing as McDonald’s burgers is not really good food, people in KFC only really grow for the first year then the bonsai realities kick in.

Pastortutes practice mothering (nurture and control) and keep dumbing things down and repeating the same sermons year after year. Its often feel good stuff and very psychological.

also see Fathering & Mothering

KFC has an annual Vision

Every year there is “prophetic word” and every year it’s the same as the last 10 years.

Revival!
Harvest Time!
Breakthrough Year!

Some hype and hope of revival keeps everybody attending, tithing and chugging along

Some Questions that we need to consider re KFC

Is KFC a real version of church?
Is McDonald’s food?
Can you grow by eating Bic Macs?
Can you get pregnant at KFC?
Is KFC a good place to spend your pregnancy?
Can the baby grow on Big Macs?
Is KFC earthly, sensual and demonic or spiritual in the true sense?
Are their hearts pure? If so, does it help much?
Are they all saved?
Are some saved?
Is this responsible?
Is KFC better than nothing?
Must we judge them?
Must we preach against them?
Compete with them?
Get people away from them?
Bless them?
Cooperate with them?
Just leave them to carry on?

Unacceptable alternative to New Testament Church

It is obvious that if God were to send only perfect people and bless only perfect churches He would be sending no one and blessing nothing. So KFC does have some sense of blessing but that does not that make it a legitimate version of church or imply that members will grow properly.

If one looks at the seven letters Jesus wrote to Seven churches in Revelations, can one reasonably expect to receive such a letter in KFC? Is it even vaguely conceivable? Probably not, very few in KFC would receive such stern letters or consider them to be of God, least of all the pastortute.

Just like synagogues were a man made coping mechanism that the Pharisees concocted in Babylon after the temple was destroyed in judgment , KFC is a sad, weak, refugee center for Christians who are clueless of God's true expectation and plan for the church.

Pastors and sometimes even Evangelists will by default lower the standard as much as possible and this dumbed-downed sugarcoated supposed “local church” is called KFC.