Yes, yes, yes, a thousand times, yes!!! Michael Spencer just hit one out of the park:
If this is what “evangelicalism” has become, or is becoming, well, it’s time for a new name, or repentance, or repentance and a new name, or repentance, a new name, and a decent hermeneutics class, or repentance, a new name, a decent hermeneutics class, and church discipline, or….
Houston, we most definitely have a problem…
This phrase comes from the 1978 "Jonestown massacre" in which most members of the Peoples Temple cult, blindly following their leader Jim Jones, committed suicide by drinking cyanide-laced Kool-Aid.
Radically Tolerant - of all people, irrespective of race, faith, circumstance. As a person, you will be treated with the respect and dignity you deserve as an individual created in the image of God.
Radically Intolerant - of slipshod reasoning, emotion without intellectual substance, bad ideas, lazy thinking, cowardly ad hominem attacks, the preposterous notion that 9/11 is some government conspiracy (proceed directly to the Loony Bin; do not pass "Go"; do not collect $200), the designated hitter, and the Dallas Cowboys.
Osborne: A Contrarian's Guide to Knowing God
Schlossberg: Idols For Destruction
Ogden: Unfinished Business
Marshall: Reclaiming God's Original Intent for the Church
Yancey: Rumors of Another World
Frazee: The Connecting Church
Pearcey: Total Truth
Postman: Amusing Ourselves to Death
Bork: Slouching Towards Gomorrah
One Response to “Jesus Has Just Left the Building”
No on expected a Spanish Inquisition…
Why are we surprised that American idol would take “Jesus” out of Shout to the Lord, when we leave Jesus out of our preaching? speck, meet plank…
Hefe ~ Apr 12, 2008 at 5:14 pm