Tiff over Jesus misses the point

Birmingham Post-Herald ^ | July 24, 2005 | James L. Evans

[HighlyOpinionated]

Your point leads to a false conclusion.

Or maybe your understanding of the question leads you to assume a false conclusion.

The Church which is doing the most for the poor is not the Church which is closed except on Sunday. It's the one with the open doors. It's the one with Servants who take vows of poverty so that they are not encumbered with worrying about finances and offer their entire lives to the poor.

Maybe you work and your spouse is free to offer time and talent to the poor. Maybe you provide offerings to small mission projects so that they'll have finances to afford to pay a preacher or a Priest. Perhaps you are rich and you give large amounts to ministry.

Now, about the total number who attend church of some sort here in my County. On any given Sunday, about 70% of the total population is in a worship service.

[jo kus]

Brother,

You're preaching to the choir. I'm Catholic...

Regards

[Conservative til I die]

So basically being a Christian is about making money? Wow, you sure don't get it.

[A.J.Armitage]

The famous creedal battles of the fourth century pitched those who believed in Jesus' absolute humanity over against those who asserted his absolute deity. The compromise, that Jesus was both fully human and fully God, allowed both sides to claim victory but also left the matter mostly unresolved.

This isn't shocking. But in light of it, this is:

James L. Evans is pastor of Auburn First Baptist Church.

He's a pastor. A pastor thinks orthodox Christology is merely a compromise. Has he ever read the Gospels? The Epistles? And he doesn't even get the heresies right: the Docetists and Ebionites were around in the late First Century; the Fourth Century guys were Arians, who were different.

[A.J.Armitage]

Before you get too smart for your own pants their, I would remind you that Lakewood Church is the largest Assembly of God in North America and Saddleback Church is the largest Southern Baptist Convention church in North America.

But that's just it: they're POPULAR, which is the most important thing in the world.

Hasn't American culture taught you anything?