Onward, Forward, Toward…

I went back and looked again at the controversial interview….

I just got finished read J. Lee Grady’s latest ‘Fire In My Bones” column entitled Tired Labels and Worn-out Wineskins and I saw something that is really at stake in the church of today…
identity

A view on spiritual warfare by Steve Camp
A view on “national guilt” by The Grey Coats

I got an e-mail a friend of mine who sent me a link to a video on Youtube

Anti-Christ of the week ending 4-7-08 is:

I have been keeping up with the controversy where the American Idol contestants last Wednesday sung the popular worship song ‘Shout To The Lord’ (written by Darlene Zschech of Hillsongs fame) but with a catch…
They replaced the line “My Jesus, My Savior with “My shepherd, My Savior”

From Brennan Manning’s book Prophets and Lovers, pages 37-38:

The tone of the Christ of God is not always sweet and consoling. The Gospel is the Good News of gratuitous salvation, but it does not promise a picnic on a green lawn. In the man Jesus, in his words, the invisible God becomes audible. And God convulsed the whole being of Jesus in the cry, “Repent, for the Kingdom of God is at hand.”
Christianity then comprises more than involvement in civil rights, ecology conservation, peace programs, the war on poverty; and …