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To: HiTech RedNeck

It is an independent baptist church. It also has a history of sexual abuse problems, according to Wiki:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Baptist_Church_of_Hammond#History

“The sermon was called “The Polished Shaft,” and in the many times that Jack Schaap, pastor of the First Baptist Church of Hammond, had delivered it, it was the kind of showstopper that made him a rock star to his flock. (Or would have, had Schaap not habitually railed against the evils of rock music.)

As with most of his sermons at the northwest Indiana megachurch—the 14th largest in the country and the biggest Independent Baptist house of worship in the nation—the message struck as bluntly as a pounded nail: Submit to God’s plan for your life or be snapped like a twig and flung away (as Schaap would demonstrate by cracking a stick over his head, tossing it aside, and barking, “Next!”).

When you do submit, be prepared to endure excruciating pain. God will hold a metaphorical knife to your throat (as Schaap would illustrate by holding a steel blade against a twig the way an assailant might press on a jugular). Only then, he would growl, will you become a “polished shaft”: one suitable for God’s bow.

At this point, the sermon’s climax, Schaap would heave up a high-powered crossbow and fire an arrow into a red X painted on a fake rock a few feet from his pulpit...

... But in July 2010, an hour into the “Polished Shaft” sermon—in a church packed with thousands of teenagers there for a youth conference—Schaap went further. He lifted a stick in his left hand and a silver cloth in his right. He moved the bottom of the stick near his groin and angled it away from himself. Head thrown back, eyes squeezed shut, mouth gaping, he began rubbing the shaft rapidly with the cloth, up and down, up and down. “Ohh! Oh! Ohhhh! Oh! Oh, God, that hurts!” he shrieked.

Then, his voice dropping to a guttural whisper, he said, “Oh, oh, God. Thanks for what you’re making me.”

Schaap continued to rub the stick—up and down, up and down—and converse with God, sometimes angrily, sometimes ecstatically, for more than a minute. What he was doing was unmistakable: simulating masturbation, in front of thousands of children, in the middle of a church service.”

http://www.chicagomag.com/Chicago-Magazine/January-2013/Let-Us-Prey-Big-Trouble-at-First-Baptist-Church/


25 posted on 03/14/2013 7:25:59 PM PDT by Mr Rogers (America is becoming California, and California is becoming Detroit. Detroit is already hell.)
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To: Mr Rogers; HiTech RedNeck
I am very leery of these mega complex churches (whatever they are called). Maybe it's just me but a lot of sexual abuse seems to occur.
26 posted on 03/14/2013 7:35:45 PM PDT by Morgana (Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Mr Rogers; HiTech RedNeck

YOU HAVE TO BE KIDDING ME!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tr0UpQXYkGs


29 posted on 03/14/2013 7:41:49 PM PDT by Morgana (Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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To: Mr Rogers

I found this too!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=YixqtOOrQt8


31 posted on 03/14/2013 7:55:10 PM PDT by Morgana (Always a bit of truth in dark humor.)
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