OK, bad title, but he makes a point.
Just like Jesus wants you to twerk with kids and hire hookers every night.
If you are “saved” why is it an issue to eat in a strip club and hang out there?
Avoid breakfast and lunch. The day shift at a strip club cannot be unseen.
Thank you for warning me about the photo of the sneeze guarded chafing dishes!
Jesus ate with sinners, but he did not participate in their sins.
Years ago when I was in the car business and was a different man, I would go to car auctions and a strip club nearby would offer free buffet. I tried it twice and challenge any man to eat while watching naked women parade around. At least I couldn’t do it, conflicted priorities seem to come into play.
Eating with tax collectors and sinners:
Jesus of Nazareth: The Prodigal Son
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pgODzUMscZ8
I’m OK with it as long as the topless waitress don’t “flop” in my mashed potatoes & gravy while bending over to set my sweet tea on the table.
Or, maybe that’s OK too...
Fortunately for me, I can easily find sinners anywhere I go, even when I'm alone in the woods.
WADR, it is pretty likely that Jesus kept Kosher. No bacon for Him.
The author keeps saying Jesus ate with sinners “at the places where they congregated.” However, the occasions when the Gospel specifically mentions Jesus’s eating with sinners are when He dined at the house of Zacchaeus in Jericho, and when He ate with Matthew the tax collector after He had said, “Follow me.”
In both cases, the host (Zacchaeus or Matthew) had invited his friends to meet the man who had called him to a converted life.
Jesus was dining with a Pharisee, Simon, when He was approached by “a woman who was a sinner,” by implication a prostitute. I don’t really get the impression from the Gospel that everyone in the room was sinless, until *that woman* walked in to repent ... no matter what the respectable male invitees thought of themselves.
The reality is that America’s government and leaders of society, and much of society, is heathen or pagan.
If sodomy were still illegal (and the law was actually enforced, as most laws are selectively enforced today) then this would not be an issue; the moment someone admitted to being a sodomite to two or more witnesses, they could be arrested.
But since “we” - that is America - turned away from God, we now have gotten what “we” the people asked for: our civil laws defy God’s Law more and more directly.
The first priority is getting the laws corrected.
If the laws are not corrected, Bible-believing Christians will be subjected to far worse pain than having to bake cakes for sodomite weddings.
Just think of the toleration of all that sin in the local town to begin with. Why was nothing done ? Why are the laws not being corrected ? Sodomites are tolerated in every way - with the full support and backing of the government.
Do we think that refusing to bake them a cake is going to have any good effect ?
The “undecideds” on the issue, the secular “middle” in America - many of them no doubt think the refusal makes Christians look petty. They won’t think of that, generally, as “standing up for what you believe in”.
We need to get busy and speak with, market to, meet with, engage in any way with as many “secular undecideds” as possible to enlighten them on the results of letting sin run rampant. We need to convince them so they take it on as their issue. IMHO, I would NOT beg, plead, whine, threaten, get excited, whatever. I would simply say if we as a society embrace open, habitual and grave sin, we’re heading down the societal toilet. Not just sodomy, but all grave sins. Then just remind them that the 2nd table of the Law simply builds upon the 1st; without the first table, there is no reason or foundation for making our civil laws adhering to the second. Without God’s Law, people come up with all sorts of crazy legal systems of their own, that are all doomed to misery and failure.
Today we (America as a nation) think of basing civil society on the Bible as not only “weird”, but actually wrong !
Three centuries ago, it would have been commonly thought of as not only crazy and stupid, but wickedly evil to NOT base civil society upon God’s Law.
Three centuries ago, most of the heinous lies and corruption we see that produces so much crime and sin we see today simply would not fly in America; the offenders would be lucky to be ridden out of town on a rail, if not arrested, tried and convicted for their crimes, just for coming up with the wicked schemes that government and new world order comes up with.
Here is a good one: The first bar band I played in had six members. Four of them were strong Mormons.
I do tell people that I “Dine with tax collectors” quite a bit. I’m in “bar bands” here in KY, but they are not “sinning” when I’m there. In fact, the clubs I play are just couples and friends getting together and mingling and dancing. It can be a lot of fun. None of the band members are “overt” Christians except for me. But I really do see it as akin to what Jesus was doing. We talk about God and Jesus quite a bit and I do the same with customers during breaks at gigs.
Every now and then some woman may get on stage and try to dance with me, though. It is imperative to not make eye contact.
The more these “experts” attempt to analyze what Jesus said or ate, the more I’m avoiding organized religion........