Posted on 08/08/2006 1:06:47 PM PDT by Gamecock
If I join will I get hair like that. :O)
Green with envy.
There was a thread a few weeks back about Rick Warren signing off on some stupid political thing and at that time I realized that Rick Warren had indeed driven off the cliff and I vowed not to defend him anymore.
In regard to some of the teachings at Saddleback, there are several heresies creeping into that church which have caused a lot of concern, particularly the idea of "contemplative prayer" and "emergent spirituality".
FWIW, Calvary Chapel has officially distanced itself from any "Purpose Driven" programs or materials. On the issue of "Contemplative prayer", this has caused a rift in the Chuck Smith family, with Chuck Smith Sr. actually removing any affiliation which his son's church, which is no longer in fellowship with the Calvary Chapel movement. Chuck Smith Jr. has essentially gone off the deep end and has started genuflecting (literally) after prayers and putting up Icons and candles in his church.
Um, that was my point.
**The MEGA-church bashing FAD has been over for six months.**
I am NOT bashing mega-churches. I m showing how some authors and publishers will milk the public for all they can get.
The author of THE CELESTINE PROPHECY, which is NOT a Christian book, did the same.
**The critical issue today is dullness. **
Well, if the preachers would give sound doctrinal preaching it wouldn't be boring or dull.
I saw a critical cartoon years ago of a preacher carrying a booklet, but NOT a Bible, that was titled "How To Tickle Their Ears".
***Heretics roasting on an open fire
Jesuit nipping off their nose***
Well, thats just great! I was trying to come up with words to that tune myself! You beat me to it.
**They even hate Cigars. :-)**
Right! And they even preach that Jesus changed the water into pure unfermented grape juice. ( I heard that one preached from a pulpit on Sunday Morning a few years ago).
"Don't drink, don't smoke, don't cuss, and don't tolerate those who do."
They also do not recognize each other at the liquer store.
Someone on FR posted this joke not long back..
Why should you always take TWO baptists fishing?
If you take ONE he will drink up all your beer.
***provoked by Tetzel, the charlatan fund-raiser ***
Several years ago, late one night I turned on the TV to TBN and saw Jan Crouch working the audience with this plea for money.
If they would send in twenty dollars she would send them a 2000 year old copy of an ancient letter telling what Jesus looked like.
She read part of the letter, puting all her emotion into it. It was a sickening act to watch.
Now, anyone who has taken Art History would know that this letter is a forgery written about the 1300's to give artists of the time a basis for their religious paintings.
Yet she was hawking it as real.
I tuned in a few other times and saw other acts of this nature before tuning out permanently.
**If I join will I get hair like that. :O)***
I would take any hair I could get!
One day I scratched my head and there was none there!
There is a presbyterian minister who occasionally posts on this board who doesn't appear to believe a single verse in the bible. I cannot recall you or any of the GRPL's ever bothering to challenge him even once. You seem quite happy with pointing out all the errors in everyone else's church yet the Presbyterian Church is falling into heresies that few if any evangelical churches would dare to fall into.
Who would this individual be?
Unlike some others, I can't spend every waking minute following freerepublic. I only look at what looks interesting.
Maybe the point here is that television advertising isn't the way to save souls. I see ads almost constantly where I live from Lakewood, Fellowship of the Woodlands, Second Baptist, and Grace, a new megachurch on the Southwest side. I find it crass. Sure, it probably puts butts in the seats, but does it save souls? I think not.
Another thought, there are always antichrists present as Satan must be ever ready for the time God chooses. People looking for one antichrist will dismiss the many.
Check Your freepmail.
1 Peter 3:15 But sanctify the Lord God in your hearts: and be ready always to give an answer to every man that asketh you a reason of the hope that is in you with meekness and fear:
God Bless you .30Carbine
Oh, there's plenty to criticize regarding some evangelicals. But even then, there's a difference between making wild-ass predictions (that's been going on forever) and actually trying to bring about the end times or, as you put it, "making ready the way for an antichrist." Whatever else their faults, I don't know of any televangelist or anyone else trying to actually spark armageddon
Though I do remember plenty of folks accusing Reagan of trying to do just that through thermonuclear war.
That's because IMO many (most?) Evangelicals are formally anti-creedal. They don't accept/bow/submit to any of the historic confessions or creeds of the church (Apostles', Athanasian, Westminister, Heidelberg, etc). Thus, they don't have an accepted, documented standard upon which to judge heresy by, let alone define what it is.
But it's safe to assume that if it's a top-ten seller at Family Christian or Lifeway Bookstores, it can't be heresy.
Oh but they do have creeds:
This year's evengelical creed is the Purpose Driven Life.
Last years was Your Best Life Now.
A couple of years ago it was the Prayer of Jezabel, I mean Jabez...
I got hooked into a study group for The Purpose Driven Life. It didn't last long. Knowing the scriptures, I quickly realized this had nothing whatsoever to do with them, and dropped out. What a waste of money on that book and study guide!
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