Gospel Message, Over-Saturated?

I went to a memorial service on Monday. Nick Schafer passed away on April 2, 2007. He was 24. He left behind his pregnant girlfriend (it was implied by his girlfriend that he died from an overdose of some kind). He was a camera operator on a recent event I produced and recently worked with a lot of my close friends. Nice guy. The service was at a church in Santa Clarita. There were both believers and non-belivers in attendance. I personally felt the Gospel message was being shoved down the throats of those who attended. It seemed fake, forced and completely inappropriate. I was expecting this young man's life to be highlighted, eulogized and remembered, not hi-jacked by local churches as a "hey, don't let this happen to you" billboard.

My question is this: is it possible for the Gospel message to be over-saturated or am I just not getting it?

I find it hard to believe that these guys would do this much "preaching" even on Easter Sunday (which was the day before I might add).

- Matt Warren

Comments

[Daniel]

Hey Matt,
I know this is from forever ago but I wanted to share my thoughts. My brief thoughts.

Question:"is it possible for the Gospel message to be over-saturated...?"

Answer: No.

I think the bigger issue is that they weren't preaching the gospel here. I would in a way agree that it can be presented in a bad way, but then I would say it ceases to be the gospel.

So, I don't know if anyone reads this, but I thought I'd share. I don't think you should ever move beyond preaching the gospel and the person and work of Jesus Christ. However, the gospel can be hijacked and be look and sound like the gospel, but it's not.