Onward, Forward, Toward…

It looks like Pragmatic Christianity has cashed in on the latest poker craze. Faith Chips that looks like poker chips.
What’s next, a cast of ‘bizarre’ looking Christians (like some of the characters you see on those poker shows) justifying this? Oh wait, we have that already via the Word of Faith movement that turned Jesus into a sacramental slot machine that putting money into their churches yields a Jesus Jackpot.
Thanks to Ingrid at Slice Of Laodicea for telling us about this.

Anti-Christ of the week ending 8-27-05 is:

I remember in Pentecostal / Charismatic circles, there was a very popular terminology used to get people to march lock, stock, and barrell to conform to “God” which later turned out to be personal opinion grossly mistaken for Godly theology. This was commonly referred to as:

You’re Gonna Miss Out…

Anti-Christ of the week ending 8-20-05 is:

Taken from page 71 of his new book The Importance of Being Foolish:

Consider how our churches have explored and exploited our need to replace the numbness in our lives with a passion for something, anything. We’ve created worship in which the music is left to stir the emotions but the soul is left unmoved, in which the words spoken are little more than manipulations of the heart. We have created catharic experiences filled with weeping and dancing in the Spirit that leave us with the sense that we have touched …

I was reading a post over at Arjay’s Weblog (if you had trackback, I would have trackbacked) about a letter he wrote to a pastor of an emerging church that is on the rise. One particular paragraph in this post really got my attention when the author talked about the ‘worship wars’ and stated this statement:

A friend of mine told me an interesting but intriguing story the other day.