Posted on 12/14/2015 3:08:34 AM PST by stars & stripes forever
WASHINGTON In Morristown, N.J., at one of the state's fastest-growing churches, it's being hailed as the Cosmic Christmas services, a three-week series centering around Star Wars characters and plots – even a live nativity scene featuring Princess Leia, Han Solo, Chewbacca, and R2D2.
In Middletown, Ill., another church is telling the Christmas story through a Star Wars pageant.
In Clarendon Hills, Ill., another church is capitalizing on the release of The Force Awakens Dec. 18 to help ministers retell the Christmas story because more Americans are familiar with the “Star Wars†saga than they are with the first two chapters of the Book of Luke.
Those are just three of many examples of American churches turning to The Force this Christmas season to fill the pews and the offering plates giving Jesus, Mary and Joseph a break.
Is it a trivialization of the gospel? Heresy? Profane? Blasphemy? A sacrilege?
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Plain stupid.
‘Reflect’ was the word that predictive changed
Thankfully Rick Warren speaks the truth at the end of the article.
Star Wars is a great, fun story, but its religious themes are nowhere near the perfection of Christianity. It’s watered-down Buddhism.
We always have to pray that the feeder churches do their job: attract people. And that any errors that may result out of those good intentions don’t live on.
"To the angel of the church in Laodicea write: These are the words of the Amen, the faithful and true witness, the ruler of God's creation.I know your deeds, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were either one or the other! So, because you are lukewarm--neither hot nor cold, I am about to spit you out of my mouth. You say, 'I am rich; I have acquired wealth and do not need a thing.' But you do not realize that you are wretched, pitiful, poor, blind and naked. I counsel you to buy from me gold refined in the fire, so you can become rich; and white clothes to wear, so you can cover your shameful nakedness; and salve to put on your eyes, so you can see." (Revelation 3:14-18)In the book of Revelation, Jesus warns us that the last church on this earth right before the Rapture will be the cold, dead, worldly and lukewarm church of Laodicea. This is a very prosperous church by financial standards, but it is also a church that no longer trusts in the power of the old-fashioned gospel to reach lost sinners and save souls. They have all the glitz and glamour of the world, because they no longer believe in the gospel once delivered to the saints. ( by Geoffrey Grider from NowTheEndBegins)
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