I love Jesus.
But many other people who love Jesus just see things in a totally different way than I do.
Like Pastor Sam Morris, from Tennessee.
I believe Pastor Sam loves Jesus.
But he has a totally different worldview than I do.
I agree with some of his premises, in fact, but they are delivered in a way that I find kind of revolting. Amen?
Is there a way that this type of preaching is helpful? Does it change minds and hearts? Or does it just rile up the base?
The base should be energized by the work of the cross and the message of the gospel; and spurred on by the urgency of the message, in my opinion; not the banging of the ‘our world is stupid, hedonistic, humanistic, and of the devil’.
What does that help?
Listen to this… and tell me how it makes you feel. Is God pleased at this man’s outrage?
What do YOU think?
Todd
The world needs Jesus not more guns.
Did he really say we are safe because we have have guns in here?
His solutions are based on mans ability to provide and protect. The only time he talked about Jesus or prayer is when he talked about where Jesus isn’t talked about or prayer practiced.
While I agree with many of the problems he pointed to. His solutions were not Biblical.
Amen? Amen? the sky is blue Amen? This guy asks for amens a bit too much… maybe I’m just to heady.
As a Christ-follower, pastor, and all around awesome guys…. I’d very much like to have been present at this sermon so that about a couple of minutes in I could stand up, walk up to him in the pulpit, punch him square in the face, preach the Gospel, and then walk out.
OK, maybe not exactly what Jesus would have done, but it would still be awesome.
As a Christ-follower, pastor, and all around awesome guy (#2), I am standing right behind David. Way to say it, bro.
There have been plenty of shootings at gun shows, when the idiots accidentally shot themselves.
Anyone who would listen to this moron shouldn’t be allowed to own a gun.
I was in school long before prayer in school was stopped. The only prayer that ever happened at school was the one prayer a preacher prayed before the football game. And surely that evolution is wrong. The earth is only 4000 years old.
And that home schooling works so good. They learn how to relate to the real world. lol
Amen?
Sick!
Wow. A pastor in a sermon advocated for stringing up the body of a dead 18 year old, burning it, and leaving it out publicly for the birds to pick the bones clean?
I wondered who was going to take over for Fred Phelps one day…
Wow. Some seriously slanted and furious statements. The line between passion for Christian faith and anger was crossed before he stepped into the pulpit, in my perception.
I agree that (most? of) the opining was without Biblical basis.
As a father and former homeschooler (15 years – no regrets), I would ask, “What percentage of Christ-following children should adhere to ‘separation’ and what percentage should go be ‘salt and light’ in public schools?”
I know the joys and challenges of both environments. And I wouldn’t advocate one over the other for any one family. But, I certainly believe families own the responsibility to disciple their children, giving them the best opportunity possible to know and follow Jesus Christ for themselves for a lifetime.
May God help us all approach Him with boldness on His invitation, with humility knowing our absolute need of Him, and with hope to not only know Him but to serve and represent Him accurately in our world.
Great post.
I’m as patriotic as anyone.
I believe in a young earth and literal six-day creation.
I’m far enough to the right that I make Limbaugh look like a centrist.
I’m as staunch a supporter of the Bill of Rights as can be… especially the second amendment.
I believe that mankind is totally depraved (Jeremiah 17:9).
However, I don’t believe Christianity qualified as “correct” being defined by the substance and spirit of this message.
While I believe that many of the things this man said are true about what’s happening across the street and down the block, the message is askew.
I’ll bet the Zealots of Jesus’ day had similar attitudes, hearts and points-of-view in Jesus’ day.
THis is so awful its beyond comprehension. We’re supposed to “payback” a 20 year old, mentally & emotionally challenged young man (who is already dead by the way) by stringing his body up in public? I don’t advocate violence…but I think I’d like to get my hands on this guy…
I hesitate to respond due to the heavy nature of recent events. Only a changed heart will change behavior.
When Christ-followers pull their children out of the public schools it demonstrates actionable steps of removing God from the schools, after all who else will be missionaries to their peers?
I’ve seen, first-hand, Christian young people have a favorable impact on changing the hearts of others for Jesus by being right in the mix.
“Go into all the world and make disciples….” Hard to be out there when you’re hiding in a cave in fear. Fear not, even if I lose my life, I win.”
I zeroed in on one statement. “God is judging the schools”. I don’t agree with that.
I do believe that God passes his judgment, and that He uses evil men (and women) to carry out His will. I believe that His judgment falls on the just and the unjust. Whether or not anything of this nature that happens is the indisputable judgment of God is not for me or anyone else to say.
I can find some agreement on some of the things he mentions, but I really believe his delivery is not of God and it borders on being hateful.
Now lets all ago visit his church at the same time and shout him down.
This guy is turning his church into a hate group – Westboro II
Is God pleased with this man’s outrage? Are you kidding? This bloviating clown turned the Sermon on the Mount on its head. His nauseating “amens?” are nothing more than a blatant plea for affirmation and with this blowhard bucket of bile you can easily understand why he’s begging somebody to agree with him. You can’t help but wonder how all seven people in his congregation must have reacted to having acid thrown in their faces “from the bottom of his heart,” as he ingloriously put it. From the dregs would more accurate.
I was curious if anyone read the comments on the YouTube page where this was posted. One of the ‘followers’ says this man is likened to ‘the most righteous man in the country’. I was saddened and at the same time angered by such rubbish.
But what is the church universal suppose to do about such blubbering? The message evokes anger in me, and I don’t like that. Now I am saddled with determining if this anger that I feel is righteous. “Be angry and sin not”. Well, honestly, I feel like sinning, just as one poster said he want to punch him.
How can the church universal NOT address this? Just as many churches have turned a blind eye to Phelps of Westboro?
Are we not supposed to exhort and admonish one another in the faith?
Last thought. Is this guy REALLY a Christian? I have my doubts.