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5/16/07 1:27 PM |
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Neil,"It is congregational lack of love for justice, not merely pastoral weakness (for we are all sinners), that I censure here." It's also congregational lack of love for the pastor too that requires censure, for it is sinful. To foster, nourish and promote sin in pastors is to hate both the souls of pastors and the congregation's own souls too. Whilst being in opposition to Falwell's politics and his gross Arminian theology, I know of no reason to reproach this man for his personal or pastoral conduct and we should be at pains not to allow the implication of such without hard evidence. I do believe the Lord is usually pleased to reveal the sins of manipulation and backstabbing where it exists - often by confounding the very tricks of deceitful plotters and turning those to expose their wicked deeds. The sins you speak of are deep-seated and not necessarily just the domain of the prominent (or obscure) preachers. I know you know this as I think you have made similar impartial observations before regarding financial impropriety - it's not just a concern for the mega-ministries and the mega-churches but affects all classes of men without distinction. |
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5/11/07 8:48 PM |
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Publican, It's nothing that hasn't been done before. Robert Maxwell made a great play about his children making their own way without the benefit of an inheritance. Of course, he managed to achieve this in more ways than one. "After his death investigators discovered that Maxwell had propped up his empire by diverting hundreds of millions of pounds from pension funds and other sources. It was a major financial fiasco, and Maxwell's empire was dissolved and sold off in the following years." Strangely, his many children still seemed to do quite well for themselves from what I can recall. |
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5/6/07 4:51 AM |
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This is simply a PR piece, not news or journalism.""Based on statistics, there is a 70-to-80 percent chance that a [Christian] child will abandon the church and their faith in a public school career," Moore told WND." Really? No statistical source is quoted. Exodus Mandate have their own agenda and bias. We should treat statistics (sic) that are thrown around without any backup with grave suspicion. ""We think probably 75 percent of the Christian churches could provide, and have the financial resources to provide, a Christian education for children, if they saw it as a necessity," said Moore, who has endorsed a move building among Southern Baptist churches to do just that. " So now that the churches (SBC included) have perfected lowest common denominator Christianity, we want them to use that same mediocrity and compromised beliefs to "to provide, a Christian education for children". What will stop this being lowest common denominator Christian education? Well over 3 in 4 Christian churches shouldn't be touched with a barge pole. |
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