He beat the rap.
He could have been a Church Growth leader in Columbus.
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The main problem I see with these posers is that instead of repudiating the sinfulness of our popular culture they give the appearance that they accept, condone, and promote the lyrics, antics, and lifestyles of these celebrity icons.
I hope that privately these pastors are instructing youth on the soul-damning implications of lyrics such as Perry's "I kissed a girl and I liked it, I hope that my boyfriend don't mind it." I hope that they are providing Biblical references demonstrating the grave sin of the porn-star they are embracing. However, the public impression that these images create dash all of my hopes.
Yes, the porn-star and Perry are sinful and in need of salvation just like you and me, but there has got to be a better way of getting your point across without these lame and misleading gimmicks.
Good and evil are like oil and water: they just don't mix.
In case some of you are interested, the following link will supply you with the ability to refute the new film Avatar. I better get this out there quickly before Skewer-your-soul-ski and company try posing with and endorsing the Christ-hating likes of James Cameron:
http://www.goodfight.org/a_v_avatar_one_world_religion.html
-TM
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GJ - Yesterday I did some reading about Henry Ward Beecher. The Lyman Beecher lectures at Yale are named after his father. Harriet Beecher Stowe was his sister, the author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, the best-selling book in the world at the time. Lyman was president of Lane Seminary, which helped start opposition to slavery among the Northern churches. Radicals left Lane to start Oberlin College, an Ohio school known for its Lefti-ness long before the other schools caught up.
Henry's bio is called The Most Famous Man in America, because he was. He manipulated huge audiences with dramatic auctions for slaves, supposedly to set them free, gathering enormous amounts of money for himself. He was doubtless quite entertaining, a real performer. He preached to "eight mistresses each Sunday" at his church. He was doubtless the role model for all Church Growth pastors.
Henry was a political leader before and after the Civil War. He believed in marrying the church to the culture of the time.
