My church in Grants Pass is a former Baptist church that is now a Warren-type "praise and worship" church where thewy applaud after every few songs, and sing silly, simplistic songs like "God is a friend of mine, He calls me friend," and other songs that say nothing but "We love Him" without ev er mentioning who "Him" is...you could be singing about Zoraster or Allah!
In fact yesterday they played the first song in a Parliament, George Clinton HORRIBLE Funk rithym, completely bizarre and weird.
BUT, when Mark started preaching, WOW! He talked about divorce, and how it's wrong for Chritians to divorce, and how modern American Chrstians think it's more important to feel happy than to live according to Biblical principles, and how, if a Chrstian divorces his or her spouse, except for adultery, and marries another, is commiting adultery according to the Bible.
Then, at the prayer at the end of the sermon, Mark prayed that all who have divorced un-Biblically to marry another repent of their adultery.
You could hear people crying throughout the congregation...it was really moving.
So, even though I dislike the silly, simplistic songs, and the Hawaiian shorts and flip-flops, and the goofy applauding after every song like we are watching Friday Night Football with Jesus who just scored a touchdown, I'm staying here because the sermons are so powerful.
Ed
Re- the sermon he preached.
This is a serious question.
If one has divorced to marry another, is now married, is NOW considered to be commiting adultery since he/she is married to someone else, then REPENTS, does he/she leave the new spouse and go back to the first spouse? Doesn't repent involve "discontinuing" the sin in addition to asking forgiveness?
I know I sound like a smarta-- for asking a question like this, but I know folks who would ask that type of question and I would have NO answer for them.
So, you reckon they went back home that night and turned back into committing their adultery? That's what repent means, to turn around and quit what you're doing.
What's wrong with "I Am a Friend of God"? Has He not called us His friend? The song is totally scriptural.