But all that is yesterday’s lukewarmness. Now, thanks to emergent guru Gary Lamb, you can integrate your love for poker and church into one with the new All In Church Service complete with over-sized playing cards on the “church” stage, a poker dealer at the poker table, and even an Elvis impersonator (not to be confused with this Elvis impersonator). Why bother yourself with all that holy stuff like Bible study, Worship, prayer, etc. Churchianity’s all about fun!
The new evangelism of the American church: “Try Jesus! If He doesn’t assimilate to your lifestyle then we’ll accommodate you every other way we can.”
Thanks to Jim from Old Truth for the heads up on this abomination.
This church has never been known to teach sound biblical doctrine and has even resorted to the latest “let’s look like the world to attract the world” tactics of having sermon topics based on popular television shows; “Is The Drama Working In Your Life?”. But they don’t stop there. At The Connection Church you can participate in turbo kick-boxing classes not one, but two nights a week. Why waste time studying God’s word and evangelizing the lost who are dying and going to hell (also known by their more seeker-sensitive name the “unchurched”) when you can have “a great workout and lots of fun for free?”
This “church” had the techno-dance music coming from the sanctuary. With windows and doors wide open, numerous women clad in tight leotards were doing their thing in the “church” sanctuary… the very place where they “worship” God on Sunday mornings.
They advertised these kick-boxing classes under “Faith Events.” I guess if you’re a perishing soul desperately hoping someone will share the gospel of Jesus with you before you die and spend an eternity in hell, you may want not want to stumble into this “church” on their kick-boxing nights. Especially if you have a temptation with women kick-boxing in leotards in a church sanctuary.
Is this what the martyrs throughout history have given their lives for? Is this what God purchased the Church with his own blood for? (Acts 20:28)
When Paul says, “If the dead are not raised, let us eat and drink,” he does not mean, “Let’s all become lechers.” He means, there is a normal, simple, comfortable, ordinary life of human delights that we may enjoy with no troubling thoughts of heaven or hell or sin or holiness or God–if there is no resurrection from the dead. And what stunned me about this train of thought is that many professing Christians seem to aim at just this, and call it Christianity. Paul did not see his relation to Christ as the key to maximizing his physical comforts and pleasures in this life.
If sinners be damned at least let them leap to hell over our bodies. Let them go with our arms around their knees. Let no one go there unwarned or unprayed for.
According to this post by “pastor” David Foster, people who fear God and live non-comprising lives, (refusing to live however they want but how God would have them live), must be legalists.
For fans of the blog Slice of Laodicea, I regret to inform you that Ingrid has decided to end her blog after a mistake at the hosting site caused irreparable damage. The entire site has been lost and Ingrid has decided not to start over again. Read her final Slice of Laodicea blog here.
Slice will be sorely missed, but she can still be heard on her talk show at Cross Talk and she’s still blogging at her other site Hope In Laodicea. Drop in and give her a word of encouragement.
Another thing an underground worker must know, not with his head only, but in his fingertips: he should know that he belongs to the body of Christ. He belongs to a body that has been flogged for nearly 2,000 years. It has always been flogged, not only on Golgotha, but under the Roman emperors and by so many persecutions. It had been flogged under the Nazis and had been flogged in Russia for over seventy years. When converted I have consciously become part of a body that is a flogged body; a mocked body; a body spat upon; and one crowned with a crown of thorns, with nails driven into the hands and feet.
They do not really think what God says is true. They secretly flatter themselves with the notion, “It will surely not be fulfilled, there must be some other way to heaven beside that which ministers speak of, there cannot be so much danger of being lost.” In short, they do not put implicit confidence in the words that God has written and spoken, and so do not act upon them. They do not thoroughly believe hell, and so do not flee from it; nor heaven, and so do not seek it; nor the guilt of sin, and so do not turn from it; nor the holiness of God, and so do not fear Him; nor their need of Christ, and so do not trust in Him, nor love Him. Like the boy Passion, in Pilgrim’s Progress, they must have their good things now. They do not trust God, and so they cannot wait.
Christ Alone Wyoming 