Pastors Preaching Too Much Negativity, Less Good News in Church Today?

Is the good news of the Gospel being shrouded by too much negativity?

That’s what Todd Rhoades, founder and developer of ChurchStaffing.com, suspects is happening in the church today.

After watching Nick Scott’s “School Portrait,” a highly praised short film about a bitter, pessimistic school photographer who tries to get kids to stop smiling in portraits, Rhoades discovered a similar problem existed with preachers.

“As I watched this video, I thought that this is how some church[es] approach preaching the gospel,” he wrote on his website.

The film starts off with a little girl walking into a room set up for school portraits. She sits down on the designated seat and begins to smile for the camera. The photographer, played by Jonathan Rhodes, promptly shouts, “No! Stop smiling!”

He adds, “We’re going to do something different today. It’s called a reality check: University tuition fees.” The information immediately stops the curly haired girl from smiling.To read more, click here.