Onward, Forward, Toward…

Michael Spencer has written another article of interest entitled Prepare To Be Blogged: Thoughts From The Pirate Blogosphere that is right on about the Christian blogosphere. I too have felt like I am a member of the Christian Pirate Internet and Christian Pirate Blogs.

An evil is in the professed camp of the Lord, so gross in its impudence, that the most short-sighted can hardly fail to notice it. During the past few years it has developed at an abnormal rate, even for evil. It has worked like leaven until the whole lump ferments. The devil has seldom done a cleverer thing than hinting to the Church that part of their mission is to provide entertainment for the people, with a view to winning them. From speaking out as the Puritans did, the Church …

Another example of political correctiveness has now reared it’s ugly head. From the controversy with sports teams in the 1990’s that had names that referred to Indians and other teams that referred to the crusades, we now have an interesting controversy.

I received an e-mail from a friend of mine who forwarded me an e-mail from a friend of theirs who had read my article on Which Church Will You Flee To Next? and left an interesting comment of:

….This has been the experience of several friends…having to go to church to church to church to avoid the trappings of PDL, lack of Bible teaching or whatever. It may look like “church hopping”, but it’s actually “church searching”

Very valid point and a very interesting monkey wrench to throw into the …

Reading many blogs that I have links to or are in my aggregator, I am seeing an interesting trend of people who leave churches due to forsaking sound Biblical theology for the Christian megatrend of the day. What is interesting to me is that many of these same people are becoming more frustrated because the church they fled to in the name of perserving sound Biblical theology is now embracing and implementing the abhorrent latest and greatest Christian megatrend of the day that sold out their last church. It raises …

How would you like to attend a cookout that had these items on the menu?

* Recovery Dogs
* Denial Burgers
* 12 Step Chicken
* Serenity Sausage
All dinners include entre’, chips, salad and a soft drink.

Anti-Christ of the week ending 5-28-05 is: