Posted on 11/30/2007 8:52:04 PM PST by Terriergal
Church. World. It seems the line has been completely obliterated.
“The third annual Global Summit on AIDS and the Church has attracted about 1,000 people to the southern California megachurch to learn how churches and individuals can help fight the deadly killer.”
Hmm...here’s my tip(s). Don’t shoot drugs in your arm and don’t share those needles. Don’t have vaginal or anal sex out of wedlock.
That should cover a vat majority of all AIDS cases in America. The other minority of cases are various things that are not related to these two things.
AIDS will disappear when we follow the Holy Word of Elohim ! It seems that Brother Rick is willfully ignorant of the Word of G-d ! Amen !
My reaction is that it all depends on what the church is saying to folks with AIDS. If the church is saying to folks with AIDS that they can turn from their sin(s) and be reconciled to God thru Jesus Christ and that the church will welcome all repentent sinner then that’s great. If on he other hand the church is simply going do a Jesusfied version of “I’m OK you’re OK” then the church is really not different at all from the message of the world.
That interview was scary!
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I think the real church is being driven out of the churches.
Don't hold your breath. He's been warned repeatedly, and his response is to 'cast out' the troublemakers.
It wasn’t pretty good. It was fluff and ego stroking self-help, as irishtenor says. I read it and was like “huh? WHY is this so popular?” I didn’t think anything of it because I had filled in the blanks unconsciously in what he LEFT OUT — e.g pretty much the whole gospel!
That is SUCH a great post!!
“Megachurch Aims to ‘Disturb’ Christians (Rick Warren and
Hillary AIDS conference)”
Mission Accomplished Rickster!
You’ve got plenty of Christians disturbed when you provide a campaign
stop at Saddleback...for Hillary!.
Rick Warren has a hard time saying anything for certain. Especially if it’s something biblical!
BUMP
Great article - thanks for sharing. What did you think about the statement:
Unlike Bill, she has firm control over her emotions; she is disciplined, doesn’t emote. The only emotion that tends to get the best of her is anger, especially the vituperation she feels at pro-lifers.
It doesn’t seem to line up with the ash tray / lamp throwing we’ve heard about!
It was an enlightening, scary article.
1,000 attendees? Not too impressive. Wonder if it was telecast?
Just read an article on FR yesterday about how numbers of HIV/Aids have been overestimated in Africa and underestimated in the US.
NOTE: CHANGED THE “P” OF PEACE from “Plant churches” to PROMOTE RECONCILIATION. BUT he claims he is not a parachurch org - just like his PDL book isn’t about “you.”
The HIV/AIDS initiative at Saddleback is a key part of Rick Warren’s P.E.A.C.E. plan, a humanitarian strategy launched three years ago. The goal of the worldwide effort is to mobilize one billion church members to Promote reconciliation, Equip servant leaders, Assist the poor, Care for the sick and Educate the next generation.
Like designer drugs, Warren has created a designer church. He went to a very affluent area of California, door to door asking what people wanted in a church. And then he set up about organizing a church that met those “felt needs.”
Problem is, as unregenerate persons, we’re not aware of our true need for salvation. Rather than going to our neighbors, we need to go to the Bible to find the Truth.
I guess that there wasn’t much purpose to the Gospels; the purpose driving Rick Warren appears to be money and fame.
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