Posted on 08/08/2008 6:13:02 AM PDT by Gamecock
If Warren is not quite today's Graham, who presided as "America's pastor" back when the U.S. affected a kind of Protestant civil religion, he is unquestionably the U.S.'s most influential and highest-profile churchman. He is a natural leader, a pathological schmoozer, insatiably curious and often the smartest person in the room.
A shift away from "sin issues" — like abortion and gay marriage — is reflected in Warren's approach to his coming sit-downs with the candidates. He says he is more interested in questions that he feels are "uniting," such as "poverty, HIV/AIDS, climate change and human rights," and still more in civics-class topics like the candidates' understanding of the role of the Constitution. There will be no "Christian religion test," Warren insists. "I want what's good for everybody, not just what's good for me. Who's the best for the nation right now?"
(Excerpt) Read more at time.com ...
Perhaps he needs to choose rooms better...
Climate change is "uniting?" I think NOT!
Beware of wolves in sheeps’ clothing.
Anytime a Christian minister gets this type of favorable publicity from the mainsteam media, it’s time to question whether he’s really a Christian minister.
Amen!
that’s not nice!
“Beware of wolves in sheeps’ clothing.”
Seems like lately, he’s been shedding his sheepskin and howling at the moon.
I don’t know that I’d go quite that far, but Warren troubles me. All things to all people. The Christian walk is not about “uniting” people.
He says he is more interested in questions that he feels are “uniting,” such as “poverty, HIV/AIDS, climate change and human rights,”
Poverty by his standards, and since when is venereal disease uniting?? climate change is just that—climate is not a constant but a variable meaning subject to change. I agree with human rights endowed by our creator.
Messiah Complex
Exactly! Seems like he doesn’t want to rock the boat - gotta have everyone love me. Be in this world but not of it. He should be preaching the Kingdom of God like we were commanded.
He speaks about the global warming and not about abortion. Amazing!
It doesn’t take much to impress this Time writer, does it? I have seen Warren speak on various shows, and he strikes me as low wattage, if you know what I mean. Stephen Colbert is one in particular who got the best of him, and most of us here already know how weak his books and interpretations of the Bible are.
A modern-day equivalent of the Apostle Paul would make short work of this “smartest person in the room.”
“Woe to you when all men speak well of you, for that is how their fathers treated the false prophets.” Luke 6:26
I,m trying to save the planet! Now,where did I hear that?
If he wants to unite with pagans, he's going about it the right way. But he's dividing himself from Christians by choosing to let the unsaved slide into Hell without giving them the good news that the can be reconciled with God if they would but repent.
I am glad that they didn't say "pastor".
A shift away from "sin issues"...
Yep...unfortunately, a shift away from sin is a shift away from biblical Christianity. After all, Christ did go to the cross to pay the price for our SIN issues....and people are currently on their way to hell because of their SIN issues. Given that, who cares if you temporarily cure poverty, disease, illiteracy, etc...
and those cured spend eternity in hell?
It is good to see the curtain getting pulled back more and more to reveal what Warren really is about.
Well said.
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