Posted on 01/14/2009 4:59:13 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
The Rev. Rick Warren, the conservative evangelical minister who will deliver the invocation at Barack Obama's inauguration, has extended an olive branch to Bishop V. Gene Robinson.
Robinson, an openly gay Episcopal bishop, had reacted angrily to the selection of Warren, who opposes gay marriage, calling it a "slap in the face." But then Robinson was selected this week to give the invocation at the inaugural opening ceremony at the Sunday afternoon concert on the Mall.
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Fake goodness reaches out to overt evil.
I’d rather have Moqtada al-Sadr giving the invocation and prayer than these two fake Christians.
Rick Warren should have just kept his mouth shut.
Excuse me, but you and I have absolutely no way of knowing what is in Rick Warren’s heart or what his private relationship with the Lord is like. It is up to God to judge whether Warren is good or not. We have no real evidence on which to say that Warren represents “fake goodness.”
Personally I think his gesture is genuinely Christian. After all, Christ himself ate with those who were publicly excoriated as the worst of sinners. It is they who really needed Him most. To be Christlike, we have to do the same.
Amen
I never said I know what is in Rick Warren’s heart. But, I can certainly judge the fruit of his public actions. He’s taken to giving evil a public platform, and treating it as if it’s somehow respectable. Now he’s “reaching out” to those who are promoting what God calls abominations.
I’m glad I never bought or read one of Warrens’ books. He is an idiot.
Oh please. The right analogy would be Christ picking Rev. Robinson as a diciple and never saying homosexuality is a sin. Good grief. Christians have lost all sense of sin. Christ never meant for Christians to no speak out about sin. He sure did not mean for us to jump in bed with sin.
But we are to shun those who claim to be a Christian brother and live in sin... “I wrote to you not to associate with any SO-CALLED BROTHER if he should be an immoral person, or covetous and swindlers, or an idolater, or a reviler, or a drunkard, or a swindler—not even to eat with such a one.... do you not judge those who are within the church? But those who are outside, God judges. Remove the wicked man from among yourselves..” I Cor. 5:11-13
Evidently you would have been first in line to correct Christ for talking to:
1. a woman
2. a Samaritan
3. a divorcee (five times)
4. an adultress (in all probability)
He was very gentle with her, and with the woman who was about to be stoned, and with all those “sinners” who came to him.
Christ saved His most pointed criticism at those who were proud of their “cleanliness”, the Pharisees.
Are you one of the 6000?
Your name is interesting...you have been given Grace...do you understand what it is?
For all who post here wrapped in their self-righteousness, you who would admit that you are totally depraved and are saved by Grace, and only by Grace...do you not understand the meaning of the word, and what it is that you claim to have received?
The Purpose Driven Ego?
Your Best Purpose Driven Life Now...
More fake Christianity on display...
Still, there is no reason for Warren to be uncivil.
Are you not wrapped in your own self-righteousness? Good thing you’re not like those Publicans. We all are sinners.
Thee Apostacy!
Rick Warren is called “evangelical.”
Then he is called “conservative.”
Next, someone will be calling him “fundamnetalist,” or that happened already and I missed it.
“Reaching out” is itself a term of the liberal neo-evangelical. Does it mean that Warren will openly try to win Robinson to Jesus Christ from false Christendom? I’ll wait to see. From my reading of Warren’s books, and from watching the trend of the “emergent church” (apostate church) in general, I don’t think Robinson would hear a clear Biblical message.
“Evangelical” 1860 to 1940 had been what “fundamentalism” is today. Then a neo-evangelicalism emerged in the late 1950s which is what would have been repugnant to pre-WWII evangelicals. But the neo-evangelicals have retained the description of “evangelical.” It is analogized by the RINOS in the political realm keeping the Republican label, when they should (if they were honest) call themselves something else.
“Conservative?” Warren a “conservative?” I don’t think so.
It is kind of like the
Christ commanded the women that he had delivered from being stoned to go and “sin NO MORE”! That was God manifest in the flesh looking into the eyes of one whose heart and life was known by Him, receiving a direct commandement with regard to her sinful practices. Christ didn’t overlook the sin of the woman.
The Scriptures and the Holy Spirit are what we have here to instruct in the will of Christ, and the Scriptures would tell Robinson to quit any practice and promotion of sodomy.
Robinson, and perhaps millions of his ilk are also benefitting from God’s mercies in that He hasn’t (yet) grabbed them all all up and flung them in to Hell.
Any Biblical message from a Biblical preacher would have to include “Go and sin no more.” Is this what Warren will tell Robinson?
The entire world is living in a day of great grace and mercy, and every sinner (that’s every individual) is beneffiting from God’s long-suffering in this age. It’s why He hasn’t yet burned this globe to a crisp. He one day will! (2 Peter chapter 3)
It is time for national repentance.
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