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To: Mr Rogers
Actually, I think Warren handled it fairly well. He never did agree to anything but Jesus as the One Way. A lot of mega-church types would have folded.

I came to a different conclusion.

As usual, Warren, as do most of the Mega-Church pastors in their effort to not offend anyone, turned the Gospel into a superficial and ineffective matter.

The following dialog goes a long way towards proving my point:

COLMES: ... can you find your way to heaven? Can you still be — go to the same place when it's all said and done?

WARREN: I'm not the authority on that, but I believe Jesus is. And everybody's betting their life on something. Jesus said, "I am the way." I'm betting that he's not a liar. I'm betting that he told the truth.


A preacher who was actually called of God to PREACH the gospel would have without equivocation, pointed Alan to Jesus as the ONLY access point to heaven and the Savior of the world.

Furthermore, you will notice, Warren made no mention of Repentence, and that is an integral part of the Gospel. Today's "non-offending" pastor/minister all too often downplay or outright ignore the role of Repentence in the salvation of man and Warren's approach includes this ommission as well.

While salvation is the gift of God it does not come without Repentence.
38 posted on 12/09/2008 8:20:09 AM PST by SoConPubbie (GOP: If you reward bad behavior all you get is more bad behavior.)
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To: SoConPubbie

Good thing FR wasn’t around when Paul was preaching to the Greeks...not sure he went into enough detail. He sugar coated the Gospel, failing to damn them all to hell and failed to tell them to repent before God destroyed them all!

And he didn’t even have Alan there to challenge every word out of his mouth before he could finish a sentence!


Paul then stood up in the meeting of the Areopagus and said: “Men of Athens! I see that in every way you are very religious. For as I walked around and looked carefully at your objects of worship, I even found an altar with this inscription: TO AN UNKNOWN GOD. Now what you worship as something unknown I am going to proclaim to you.

“The God who made the world and everything in it is the Lord of heaven and earth and does not live in temples built by hands. And he is not served by human hands, as if he needed anything, because he himself gives all men life and breath and everything else. From one man he made every nation of men, that they should inhabit the whole earth; and he determined the times set for them and the exact places where they should live. God did this so that men would seek him and perhaps reach out for him and find him, though he is not far from each one of us. ‘For in him we live and move and have our being.’ As some of your own poets have said, ‘We are his offspring.’

“Therefore since we are God’s offspring, we should not think that the divine being is like gold or silver or stone—an image made by man’s design and skill. In the past God overlooked such ignorance, but now he commands all people everywhere to repent. For he has set a day when he will judge the world with justice by the man he has appointed. He has given proof of this to all men by raising him from the dead.”

When they heard about the resurrection of the dead, some of them sneered, but others said, “We want to hear you again on this subject.” At that, Paul left the Council.”


43 posted on 12/09/2008 8:41:02 AM PST by Mr Rogers (And if there are those who cannot subscribe to these principles, then let them go their way - Reagan)
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