Monday, February 25, 2008
What God is telling the church
By VictorM:John Marks was a born again Christian who years ago questioned his fate and left the church. Recently, he spent a couple of years investigating Christian America. In a Salon.com interview, he had this to say about religion in America:
I don't see America outgrowing its faith. But what God is telling the church to do is changing. If you think of the evangelical community as Jerry Falwell or Pat Robertson, you're going to be surprised at every turn in the next 20 years. You're going to see many more evangelicals becoming staunch Democrats."But what God is telling the church to do is changing." How did he do that? Text message? Email? How exactly? And is god changing what he told Pat Robertson? And is this the same god that talks to bin Laden? And told George Bush to invade Iraq?
Come on! God didn't tell anyone anything. The religious establishment will just adapt and change their marketing strategies to maximize revenue and stay relevant as long as they can.
Evangelicals becoming staunch Democrats? *gulp* Can't they embrace Nader instead? Please?
Color me skeptical of Mr. Marks conclusions.
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I make no claim to being a Bible scholar, but if I understand correctly at all, God never told anyone to attend any particular church. Neither did Jesus. Pray and congregate with other believers to worship, yes, but the faith was assumed to be Christianity, and denominations didn't figure into it.
All the rest is the doing of men, starting, I think, with Paul the apostle (at least for Roman Catholics).
So, if God didn't point people toward this church or that congregation of believers in biblical times, I find it hard to believe He's passing along hot tips to Robertson, Marks or any other living mortals nowadays.
Of course, if the clouds part, there's a loud boom and I'm a goner, well, you can figure I got it wrong.
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All the rest is the doing of men, starting, I think, with Paul the apostle (at least for Roman Catholics).
So, if God didn't point people toward this church or that congregation of believers in biblical times, I find it hard to believe He's passing along hot tips to Robertson, Marks or any other living mortals nowadays.
Of course, if the clouds part, there's a loud boom and I'm a goner, well, you can figure I got it wrong.
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