Hmmm...it’s kind of hard to take you seriously when a number of FReepers have PM’d me and thanked me for helping them break free of the Temple of Darwin and accept Jesus Christ as their Lord and personal Savior.
You and your obviously liberal United Methodist pastor should sit down together and discuss the following:
Dangerous Turn Ahead: Traveling down the road to compromise
http://www.icr.org/article/4619/
May God open your eyes and heart to His Word. Amen.
You are hopeless. You clearly didn’t listen to the message. There is no compromise in the message.
GSUMC is a *huge* church and growing rapidly. Talbot brings people to Christ in ways you can’t possibly imagine.
And, actually, your post shows that you didn’t listen to the message. Because you do the exact wrong thing that the message warns about IMMEDIATELY. You attack Talbot: “You and your obviously liberal United Methodist pastor...”
Don’t you see that in that one statement you have attempted to marginalize a pastor who brings thousands to Christ? You can’t tell me that by saying “your obviously liberal United Methodist pastor” isn’t an attempt to demean him in some way. That’s your way of saying “HE IS WRONG, LISTEN TO ME INSTEAD!”
That amazes me. That is a direct attack on another very faithful person. Someone who is very good at being a messenger of Christ. And you do this consistently on these boards. All I need to do is go back through your comment history to find example after example of someone who says “I accept Jesus but believe the universe is millions of years old” to find you informing that person he worships a false god, he is damned, etc.
You need to listen to that message and understand that what you do is not good for Christianity. Post as many YEC articles as you want, but temper your responses to skeptics. If they say they accept Jesus, maybe you should use that as a starting point for the dialogue rather than immediately informing that because they aren’t a YEC, they haven’t accepted the REAL Jesus. Seriously. Can’t you see that?
Finally, if you aren’t aware that this is how you behave on the boards - or are at least perceived as behaving by a large number of folks outside your clique - you need to work on your self-awareness.