Posted on 01/04/2025 5:26:31 PM PST by MNDude
Brian Tome is the lead pastor of Crossroads Church, a seeker-sensitive, multisite megachurch in Cincinnati, Ohio, that advertises itself as a “place for people who have given up on church but not on God.” They further note that they are an “interdenominational church” and that “Our beliefs are shared by many different Christian denominations, and we welcome everyone. It’s like one big pool party, with Methodists and Catholics and Presbyterians all doing cannonballs together.”
For the introduction of the Sunday morning sermon, Brian Tome reenacts a scene from the movie, climbing through an air duct before emerging on stage, looking beat up and bruised, before lighting up a real cigarette and smoking on stage.
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Just give me the old fashioned Gospel.
Thank you.
wow - fun movie in many ways but a church service? yikes
Any idea how many Christians still smoke? We attend a really conservative Bible based church, but there’s a sign on the bathroom stall door -— “please do not smoke in bathroom”. Having said that, it doesn’t seem like a good idea for a pastor to do that in a church service. (Thank God my husband quit smoking several years ago, after having smoked for over 50 years!)
The audience is looking for entertainment, not for a gospel message.
Diehard is NOT a Christmas movie.
Just thought I’d share that.
AMEN!!!!!!!!!!! and in the end.... DEATH!
Agree...entertainment for goats.
Old school KJV only for me.
XD... looking to start an argument I see...
Is so, isn’t the theme song Jingle Bell Rock? Or was it Christmas in Hollis? I forget.
I prefer church without stunts and buffoonery. It can be done.
:)
smoking is the bane of many a victim- once in it’s grips, it’s near impossible to overcome- they say it’s worse than trying to quit heroine- I was hooked for 40 years, and only quit when my asthma got too bad and breathing got more difficult- I “Tried” for years- but the fear of suffocating was what finally did it for me- unfortunately i quit too late- and have both copd and emphysema - not fun! God often times allows a person to reap the consequences of their decisions- He doesn’t always swoop in and remove the consequences- so people will struggle with one sin or another all their lives- they might not submit to the sin, but the lousy desire is still there-
I’ve been quit for 12 years now, and still i have cravings and dream of smoking- a nasty wicked plant tobacco- (especially after producers increased the nicotine content in em apparently)
LOL
While it is a Christmas movie,
Its not a church movie.
> I prefer church without stunts and buffoonery. <
Yep. Such things only distract from the central message: the Word of Christ.
And that’s one reason I left the Methodist church. The services were more like social worker meetings than anything else.
“Crossroads Church, a seeker-sensitive, multisite megachurch in Cincinnati, Ohio, that advertises itself as a “place for people who have given up on church but not on God.” They further note that they are an “interdenominational church”
What the heck does that even mean?
My husband also has emphysema. When he finally quit, he said it wasn’t really hard to do. But he was motivated, due to being so short of breath all the time. He’s on oxygen just about 24/7. He was told he could be a candidate for the new surgery where they put some kind of vent into the good part of the lungs, but had to be off cigarettes for two years. Unfortunately, he has some asbestos damage in one lung, from doing construction for decades. The specialist told him he couldn’t use that lung, and if the operation on the other lung failed, he would only have the bad lung left. Still praying for a miracle. There is nothing God can’t do!
Ugggh! Options don’t sound overly promising- Sorry to hear he is going through that- Can they do a lung transplant? A Friend of ours had ot have it done due to a disease which ruins the lungs- he is in his 60’s and doing pretty well now- It stinks having to be on antireject drugs for life, but he is now able to do things he couldn’t before-
Eternity: smoking or nonsmoking?
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