Does the world need “Elders”?
July 27, 2007 at 11:36 am | Posted in Christianity | 1 CommentTags: adultery, agreement, ateasetees, Bible, blunt, change, Christian, church, compromise, conflict, courage, cross, death, Desmond Tutu, despair, Ela Bhatt, elders, euthanasia, evangelism, evil, faith, fear, flood, generations, Gentile, God, golf, gospel, Graca Machel, grace, Gro Harlem Brundtland, hate, heartache, heaven, hell, holy, homosexual, hope, humanity, ignorant, infomercials, Jesus, Jimmy Carter, judgment, Kofi Annan, law, Li Zhaoxing, lie, life, Lord, love, Mary Robinson, mercy, Muhammad Yunus, murder, Nelson Mendela, obedience, peace, perish, Peter Gabriel, population control, prayer, pressure, pro abortion, putt, repent, Richard Branson, rude, salvation, scripture, sin, Sinner, ten commandments, truth, uity, unborn, wisdom, wise
I will readily admit that I’m behind on the news that is going on. I am still working a daily job, as well as preparing for a huge church function, preparing to coach my daughter’s soccer team, researching my next sermon, and trying to get all my thoughts together on my new venture: an online evangelistic t-shirt company.
Even with all of that going on, I couldn’t pass up the opportunity to write on something that seemed so grossly out of place and just plain weird. The news item in question is the announcement of a group of “Elders” that will use their combined wisdom and insight to help solve the “global community’s” problems. The group of Elders includes Kofi Annan, Desmond Tutu, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Mary Robinson, Jimmy Carter, Li Zhaoxing, Muhammad Yunus, Ela Bhatt, Graca Machel, and Nelson Mandela.
Not to be rude, blunt, or sound ignorant, but I don’t know most of the people listed and regardless of whether I know who they are or not, why are they the ones “chosen” to be Elders? The group was proposed by millionaire Richard Branson (Virgin Records) and Peter Gabriel. Is this really the type of people that should be choosing “wise” men? Does this group represent the type of wisdom that the world needs? Many of the members of the Elders are pro-homosexual , pro-abortion, and pro-population control. Is that what the world needs? Maybe it’s kind of like this: “If we can’t keep you from being born, then we’ll keep you from reproducing, and if we can’t do that, then when you’re old enough to not fight us off, we’ll euthanize you”. Sure, it’s brash but how close to the truth is it? Continue Reading Does the world need “Elders”?…
The Call
July 20, 2007 at 3:26 pm | Posted in Christianity | 2 CommentsTags: abomination, abortion, adultery, America, ateasetees, Bible, Christian, church, clergy, compromise, dancing, death, decay, divorce, evangelism, faith, fornication, God, Gomorrah, gospel, government, grace, hell, holy, homosexuality, hope, humble, Hustler, immorality, Jeff Deyo, Jesus, judgment, law, life, love, LP Field, marriage, mercy, money, moral, murder, Nashville, nation, pastor, peace, Pedro, pornography, prayer, pregnant, president, pure, purity, purpose, repent, salvation, Saturday, scripture, shouting, silent, sin, singing, Sodom, ten commandments, The Call, Tom, truth, United Methodist Church, weeping, wicked
I have been praying about how to respond to this for about 3 weeks. It’s been three weeks since the Call took place in Nashville. On 7-7-07, 40 – 70,000 Christians (it depends on who you ask) met at LP field to pray and intercede for our nation. Those who went were of one mind and many of the attendants there had been fasting for forty days prior to arriving in Nashville. Those who led the Call said that it was to “turn the church and the nation away from immorality”.
I was there. I went up to Nashville on the fourth of July to help prepare for the Call. Some friends of mine and I were at LP field on the fourth to spread the gospel. I remember the people that I met that night. I was at LP field Thursday and Friday to help prepare the stage and the stadium for the service that took place on Saturday. I remember the people there too. I remember Pedro and Tom, who were two of the main people setting up the stage area. I remember leaving Million Dollar bills at every drive through. Continue Reading The Call…
Get the Word out! 
Anglican controversy
July 31, 2007 at 6:53 pm | Posted in Christianity | Leave a commentTags: abomination, abortion, acceptance, America, Anglican, ateasetees, Bible, bishop, boycott, Christian, church, commentary, compromise, contradict, death, England, episcopal, evangelical, evangelism, faith, fear, flesh, gay, gay priest, Gene Robinson, God, Gomorrah, gospel, grace, headline, hell, holy, homosexual, homosexuality, hope, idolatry, Israel, Jesus, judgment, justice, Lambeth, lament, law, life, lifestyle, love, marriage, mercy, money, murder, pastor, peace, power, prayer, reconciliation, repent, salvation, scripture, sin, Sodom, ten commandments, tradition, tremble, truth, understand
I have seen headlines over the past few weeks talking about the turmoil in the Anglican church, and it breaks my heart. Gene Robinson, an openly gay bishop, has been the icon connected with much of the trouble going on. In 2003, Mr. Robinson was ordained as a bishop of the Episcopalian church, even though it was known that he was gay. He said in a recent article that this was not just an “American problem”.
The truth remains that it is a problem Mr. Robinson. While I will readily agree that there needs to be acceptance of people that are living a gay lifestyle, it goes against the Word of God itself to accept a lifestyle that God says is an abomination and clearly (for those who are honest) rebels against the Lord’s command. It is ironic to me that you complain about the notion of punishment that the Episcopal Church may mete out. What is sad is that there is no mention in the article about the judgment that God Himself will mete out (remember Sodom and Gomorrah?)…You say that it is against the Anglican tradition to punish those who are non-compliant. The truth is that this isn’t about the Anglican tradition, or the Catholic tradition, or the Baptist tradition. What this is about is the Truth. Continue Reading Anglican controversy…
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