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I'm not against high-production-value worship services. I'm just against making them the center of Christian life. I like good music and, while I don't need lights and smoke, I appreciate worship leaders who are skilled, well rehearsed, and using their talents to the utmost. The problem comes when we put all our resources (money, time, and people) into on-campus worship services and don't effectively take the gospel off campus into the world around us.

I don't have a problem with doctrine, either. We need doctrine! Only, we need right doctrine, which is the doctrine of love (grace) you are getting at instead of the false doctrine of control that shows up in too many western churches. Good doctrine, like the gospel from which it comes, will set us free to love one another (Galatians 5). Let's keep talking as a church about what this right doctrine is and learn how to operate out of grace and love as you discern.