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If you’re preaching to consumers rather than disciples you got to keep their attention and that requires constant innovation. They have to have something new and different every time you get together or you’re going to lose them.
– Kim Riddlebarger
(From this episode of the White Horse Inn)
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With the coming of the Son of God in human flesh, ritual and worship would undergo profound change. Christ Himself would become the final Passover Lamb, the final priest, the final temple. They would all pass away, and He would remain. What remained would be infinitely better. Referring to Himself, Jesus said, “I tell you, something greater than the temple is here” (Matthew 12:6). The temple became the dwelling of God at rare times when the glory of God filled the holy place. But of Christ the Bible says, “In him the whole fullness of deity dwells bodily” (Colossians 2:9). The presence of God does not come and go on Jesus. He is God. . . . If we would meet God in worship, there is only one place we must go, to Jesus Christ.
– John Piper
They claim their faith is over 2,000 years old, but their thinking is not?
This church’s motto is, “Our faith is over 2,000 years old but our thinking is not.”
Yes it is. There is nothing new under the sun (Ecclesiastes 1:9) and certainly not the sin this church is openly involved in. It’s as old as Sodom and Gomorrah.
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No human being is to be depended on. “Put not your trust in princes, nor in the son of man, in whom there is no help” (Psalm 146:3). If I disobey God, then I deserve to be deceived and disappointed by my fellows. People who like you today, may hate you tomorrow. The multitude who cried, “Hosanna to the Son of David,” speedily changed to “Away with Him, crucify Him” (Matthew 21:9; John 19:15).
– AW Pink
1886 – 1952
Crosstalk: Christians, Affluenza, and the Coming Economic Crisis
Ingrid Schlueter of Slice of Laodicea and Hope in Laodicea hosts this edition of CrossTalk in which she discusses the coming demise of the affluence of America and how years of unbridled affluence has affected the Church. Listen to Christians, Affluenza, and the Coming Economic Crisis here. You can also see her blog post on Affluenza here, and read the show description below:
Today the average garage size for a new American home is 900 square feet. That was the size of the average American home in the 1950’s. Some spas are offering facials, manicures and massages for youngsters. Some businesses are offering exotic location birthday parties for kids.
It’s this unsustainable addiction to economic growth, materialism, overconsumption, waste, and the constant desire for more that is the basis for this edition of Crosstalk. Ingrid calls this attitude, Affluenza, from the title of a book published back in 1998.
Has this hedonistic mindset entered the church? Have you felt the pressure to “keep up with the Jones’s?”
This Crosstalk takes a look at these questions and more while reminding Christians to keep an attitude of contentment amidst the consumption craziness and ever rising prices.
See this related post: The coming food shortage.
Taking a closer look at Todd Bentley . . . literally.
Click on any of the pictures of Todd Bentley’s tattoos to enlarge.
For more on Todd Bentley, click here.
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I have insisted we recover the genuine Gospel of Jesus–that balanced New Testament message that begins not with the fleshly needs of people, but with the plan and wisdom of God–“born again” conversion that leads to righteousness, sanctification, and redemption. Any “mission” that springs from “the base things of the world” is a betrayal of Christ and is what the Bible calls “another gospel.” It cannot save or redeem people either as individuals or as a society.
– K.P. Yohannan
Todd Bentley: More angels, bright light, electrocution, uncontrollable shaking and blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah . . .
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The idea of cultivation and exercise, so dear to the saints of old, has no place in our total religious picture. It is too slow, too common. We now demand glamour and fast flowing dramatic action. . . . We read our chapter, have our short devotions and rush away, hoping to make up for our deep inward bankruptcy by attending another gospel meeting or listening to another thrilling story told by a religious adventurer lately returned from afar.– A. W. Tozer
1897 – 1963
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A Scriptural view of sin is one of the best antidotes to the extravagantly broad and liberal theology which is so much in vogue at the present time. The tendency of modern thought is to reject dogmas, creeds, and every kind of bounds in religion. It is thought grand and wise to . . . pronounce all earnest and clever teachers to be trustworthy, however heterogeneous and mutually destructive their opinions may be.
-J. C. Ryle
1816 – 1900
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“Everything forsooth is true, and nothing is false! Everybody is right, and nobody is wrong! Everybody is likely to be saved, and nobody is to be lost!” The atonement and substitution of Christ, the personality of the Devil, the miraculous element in Scripture, the reality and eternity of future punishment, all these mighty foundation-stones are coolly tossed overboard, like lumber, in order to lighten the ship of Christianity . . . . Stand up for these great verities, and you are called narrow, illiberal, old-fashioned, and a theological fossil! Quote a text, and you are told that all truth is not confined to the pages of an ancient Jewish book . . . . We must charge home into the consciences of these men of broad views, and demand a plain answer to some plain questions. We must ask them to lay their hands on their hearts, and tell us whether their favorite opinions comfort them in the days of sickness, in the hour of death, by the bedside of dying parent, by the grave of beloved wife or child.
-J. C. Ryle
1816 – 1900
The White Horse Inn: Radical Informality
On this edition of the White Horse Inn the guys discuss the issue of Radical Informality in life, in church, and in the pulpit.
Show description: Previous generations wore suits to baseball games. Now many Americans show up at church in blue jeans and T-shirts. How has the cultural shift toward informality affected American Christianity over the last few decades? Join the White Horse Inn hosts as they evaluate the effects of “radical informality” on contemporary Christian thought and practice.
The gospel according to Bruce Springsteen.
Leave your Bibles at home for this one folks; a whole month of sermons based on Bruce Springsteen’s lyrics await you at Grace United Methodist Church (and the descent into complete apostasy continues).
Read this article about the Reverend Morris Brown using Bruce Springsteen’s music to teach the Bible.
Brown says a lot of thought is being put into the sermons so as to not alienate non-Springsteen fans.
Whew, thanks Reverend Brown. Now what about not alienating those who expect faithfulness to the preaching of the Word, sound biblical teaching, a separation from the world, and a reverence for the things of God? Or have those “fundamentalists” already been run off long ago?
His past series offerings playing off pop culture have included a “Games People Play” summer series using board-game strategy and “Lessons from the Motley Crew,” in which the sermons played off the name of the popular rock band Mötley Crüe to talk about spiritual lessons to be learned from the lives of Jesus’ 12 disciples and Mary Magdalene.
I can only imagine what’s next.
Oh wait, I don’t have to imagine, there is more here.
Poker machine prize in Sunday school?
Rene, a DefCon reader, sent me a post from another blog in which the writer told of his recent visit to a seeker-sensitive social club “church” and the prize his four-year-old daughter won in Sunday school. Check it out here.
When you think of Resurrection Sunday, do the words “sex, money, and power” come to mind?
Apparently it does if you go to Perry Noble’s “church” in South Carolina. There you get yet another unhealthy dose of man-centered, entertainment-driven “preaching” with a “sermon” series entitled Sex, Money & Power. Seriously folks, I can’t make this garbage up.
This is the mailer sent out by New Spring to advertise their “Man Series” which includes a sermon entitled Protectile Dysfunction (click on the picture to enlarge).
And they didn’t stop there. Below I’ve posted two short promo videos for this “church” to show you the gravity of the problem. Remember when you watch these videos that they are produced by a “church” to promote their sermon series . . . really, I’m not kidding.
What more would you expect from a church that had a grown-man greeting people in the church foyer for Christmas dressed as an elf?
Whatever happened to holiness . . . in the church?
Christ Alone Wyoming 