The pastor preaches in designer jeans and skateboarding shoes.
He tweets links to his blog and chats with churchgoers on Facebook.
As members walk into the movie theater or auditorium for services, the pastor and his wife are in the front row, singing along and pumping their fists to loud pop music, played by a live band featuring electric guitars.
Suburban megachurches, move over. There's a hipper game in town.
odd wrote: makes me wish Luther had corrected the sale of indulgences but stayed put. what is called "church" these days is a sad joke and a stench in God's nostrils. where is the reverence?
I see it this way. Yes, this church is crazy. But, if they are not teaching the Gospel to the congregation then can they really be considered a church? At least this is only one church who has gone astray. What if there was only one central church on Earth and it went crazy? The Catholic Church has a billion people in it. And in my view they left the Gospel a long time ago. This means the vast majority of a billion people, even if they attend their individual churches are not part of the true church because they have not received Jesus as their Savior, trusting in Him completely for their soul's salvation.
John UK wrote: Ah yes, if only Luther had corrected all the Roman Catholic errors and convinced the pope of his need to repent of being antichrist, and changing Catholic beliefs radically, especially concerning salvation being by faith alone in Christ alone, apart from works, and taking away all of the idols and statues and relics, and infant baptism, and all other sacraments like the unbiblical Mass, and unbiblical priests, cardinals and bishops, removing the word father from mere men, denying marriage to God's servants, and 1001 other aberrations, then yes, there would have been some reverence preserved, and Luther would not have been compelled to move out. Or should I say chucked out, having his life threatened by the ungodly?
Luther retained in the Lutheran Church the Catholic doctrines that are scriptural and left out of the Lutheran Church the Catholic doctrines that are unscriptural. And the Mass is not entirely unscriptural because there are scriptural parts to the Mass.
odd wrote: makes me wish Luther had corrected the sale of indulgences but stayed put. what is called "church" these days is a sad joke and a stench in God's nostrils. where is the reverence?
Ah yes, if only Luther had corrected all the Roman Catholic errors and convinced the pope of his need to repent of being antichrist, and changing Catholic beliefs radically, especially concerning salvation being by faith alone in Christ alone, apart from works, and taking away all of the idols and statues and relics, and infant baptism, and all other sacraments like the unbiblical Mass, and unbiblical priests, cardinals and bishops, removing the word father from mere men, denying marriage to God's servants, and 1001 other aberrations, then yes, there would have been some reverence preserved, and Luther would not have been compelled to move out. Or should I say chucked out, having his life threatened by the ungodly?
makes me wish Luther had corrected the sale of indulgences but stayed put. what is called "church" these days is a sad joke and a stench in God's nostrils. where is the reverence?
"As members walk into the movie theater or auditorium for services, the pastor and his wife are in the front row, singing along and pumping their fists to loud pop music, played by a live band featuring electric guitars."
Hot stuff!
Probably an export from the hottest place in the universe.
C Cazares, quite correct, C Cazares. I was going to use a bigger chunk of the article to quote from, but this really gets to the heart of the matter, "But, ARC officials are quick to point out, their pastors are ordained with the Assemblies of God, a more traditional Pentecostal denomination."
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