November 17, 2008
Baal Worship
Picture this: Your pastor preaches the Sunday morning sermon while sitting on a bed and his challenge to the congregation is for married couples to have sex once a day, beginning today, for seven straight days in a row. Really, I can’t make this stuff up. The Dallas Morning News (Nov 16th) reported that Rev. Ed Young of Grapevine Fellowship Church, a Baptist church of 20,000 members, just preached such a sermon. Mr. Young thinks the ‘whoopee’ will take folks minds off all the problems in America. According to the article, a church in Florida also issued a 30-day sex challenge to its congregation earlier this year. Sort of reminds you of the worship of Baal, doesn’t it?
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Gail;
-----The basic premise of these sermons on sexing it up to deal with America’s difficulties is flawed. The new life deals with error head on. It does not divert its eyes from the truth; it confesses what is wrong. Although repentance may be difficult, and societal repentance may be impossible, the new life continues to acknowledge error in all truth about it, until it understands a Scriptural solution and has the intestinal fortitude to implement it.
-----These sermons fit well into the new church paradigm, a mentality anxious to hold on to gold that supposedly indicates the relevance of the church within a post modern culture and to see visions of supposed service to the Lord in that culture. But the purveyors of the new paradigm have failed to carefully search the Scriptures for their description of relevance and vision. They tactically use the historic changes from the Sardis church era into the Philadelphian to promote converting the Philadelphian era into that of Laodicea. Those of us who are Berean enough to search Scripture thoroughly and humbly now become missionaries to the developing Laodicean church. In a sense, we become the Lord’s merchant vessels offering His gold and salve of the Word to a church becoming pitiful, wretched, poor, and blind.
Love,
Steve Corey
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