Christ statue removed from SC Baptist church for being ‘too Catholic'
Jesus Christ is being removed from a South Carolina church.
A statue of Jesus Christ and accompanying artwork that has been displayed at Red Bank Baptist Church for more than a decade will be taken down by Thursday, according to church officials.
The art will be removed because a majority of the congregation voted that the 7-foot-tall statue and sculpted reliefs were "causing some confusion."
Welcome wrote: Yes indeed friend, sickening. Many of God's children worship in small groups in homes or by Skype with other brethren. Grace and Peace Watcher to you and yours. Come Lord Jesus.
The underground church is coming. Quicker than we think. Blessings and peace to you as well in Christ's love!
Yes indeed friend, sickening. Many of God's children worship in small groups in homes or by Skype with other brethren. Grace and Peace Watcher to you and yours.
Welcome to our church wrote: In case any think I'm over the top in my 'tongue in cheek' posts..to some degree I have actually witnessed this in my pilgrimage. Quite sad.
I've witnessed Hell Bells in church. I've witnessed Hawaiian skirt dancers, "virgin dancers" in black spandex leading everyone in "worship"...and the list goes on. Sickening.
Welcome to our church wrote: Oh my I forgot to mention our big ecumenical VBS that we are hosting at our main 'campus'. The Dawn of the Living Dead is the theme this year. So apropos, wouldn't you say😇
Oh my I forgot to mention our big ecumenical VBS that we are hosting at our main 'campus'. The Dawn of the Living Dead is the theme this year. So apropos, wouldn't you say😇
Dr. Tim wrote: Glad you're onboard with the updates, Welcome. We also plan to get the pastor some turtlenecks and stone-washed jeans so he'll feel more comfortable when he sits on the barstool and has a little chat with the congregation on Sunday mornings. Since we are just minutes from the beach, we are encouraging visitors to wear their bikinis and speedos for the five-minute drive-through service. Also, the deacons (and, as of last week, deaconesses) will be serving Chips Ahoy in lieu of communion wafers. We sure wouldn't want the world to feel ill at ease in the--oops! I almost said church--worship center.
Actually, in our area, we have had a run on themed churches. From stripper church to garage church to barn church. You can use your imagination...This is precisely what happens when we have false-converts playing Christianity.
Glad you're onboard with the updates, Welcome. We also plan to get the pastor some turtlenecks and stone-washed jeans so he'll feel more comfortable when he sits on the barstool and has a little chat with the congregation on Sunday mornings. Since we are just minutes from the beach, we are encouraging visitors to wear their bikinis and speedos for the five-minute drive-through service. Also, the deacons (and, as of last week, deaconesses) will be serving Chips Ahoy in lieu of communion wafers. We sure wouldn't want the world to feel ill at ease in the--oops! I almost said church--worship center.
Many desire their version of 'Jesus' to procure pardon and a ticket to heaven for them but not as a Prophet or King to instruct them or rule over them. They accept their 'Jesus' under the terms of their vain religious traditions and humanistic reasoning.
The daughter of my Baptist Pastor owns a statue of Jesus. And there is a lady member of my Baptist Church who owns a small statue of Jesus for her vehicle dashboard.
Well, it looks like I'm getting hit with a lot of accusations, but I have no purpose to respond because:
1. You guys seem to not be willing to see my comment when I condemned the erecting of statues.
2. You are not presenting my arguments fairly.
3. You really don't seem to want to listen.
4. I have yet to see exegesis that in the Exodus passages that it could be applied to Christ (since they did not know what the Messiah would look like)
5. I pointed out that orthodox Christians would not worship it.
6. Etc.
Why should I invest the time to defend myself, with people who really don't want to listen? There's no purpose.
Alan Jackson wrote: Exodus 20:4 KJV Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Enough said.
Alan, I will point out that the famous JFB commentators of Britain had this to say:
JFB commentary wrote: Exodus 20 4, 5. Thou shalt not make . . . any graven image . . . thou shalt not bow down thyself to them—that is, "make in order to bow." Under the auspices of Moses himself, figures of cherubim, brazen serpents, oxen, and many other things in the earth beneath, were made and never condemned. The mere making was no sin—it was the making with the intent to give idolatrous worship.
There are certainly reasons for not having them in a Protestant church as I pointed out in my first two comments on this thread. ❗👍 Former Catholic in his post also made some good comments.
""A statue of Jesus Christ and accompanying artwork that has been displayed at Red Bank Baptist Church for more than a decade""
What on earth was an IDOL doing in a group that calls itself 'Christian church'
Ignorance and blindness in the visible church causes heresy, ecumenicalism, Liberalism and idolatry.
What a church does in front of its congregation has an effect upon them. The elders of this church need to be questioned as to their comprehension of doctrine and truth.
GOD ordained the Reformation.
Acts 7:41 And they made a calf in those days, and offered sacrifice unto the idol, and rejoiced in the works of their own hands."
Just like the graven image the crucifix this IDOL was working against God.
Exod 20:4 Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth:"
Isaiah 44:9 They that make a graven image are all of them vanity; and their delectable things shall not profit; and they are their own witnesses; they see not, nor know; that they may be ashamed."
Sad but true sister. All the while, they broaden the road and get quite rich along the way. The prosperity pimps are not limited to the Charismatics, there are many within the 'reformed' camp as well- they are more subtle in their schemes and ways.
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