Comments on: Open Mic at the iMonk Cafe: Gospel Texts Turned Bad (+ My SBE Guest Room Post)

By: John

John — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 22:48:47 +0000

?masturbation? I thot it was about petting.

By: Chad Rushing

Chad Rushing — Sun, 02 Aug 2009 01:03:29 +0000

What about all the violent passages in the New Testament regarding the second coming of Christ, not to mention Hell? When the weight of God’s justice finally comes down fully upon humanity, it is not going to be pretty.

By: Steve Scott

Steve Scott — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 21:28:39 +0000

Jen said: “How ya supposed to get married?” You’re already supposed to be married from before the foundations of the world, that’s how!

By: Headless Unicorn Guy

Headless Unicorn Guy — Thu, 30 Jul 2009 04:09:59 +0000

Wish I’d thought of that one, but I was never a good enough BS artist to pull off anything like that.

Christian Monist said that during his days in the Navigators, “God Hath Revealed Unto Me That You Are To Marry Me” was the standard (and pretty much the only) way they got married in the Navs. From the examples he gave, the resulting “God Saith!” marriages had around a 50-50 success rate.

By: Rick

Rick — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:59:13 +0000

I’m sorry that my comments came across so harsh. I had no intention to interrogate or insult you.
Rick

By: Anna A

Anna A — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:40:38 +0000

Hey, Don’t look at me to explain the differences. I never understood them as a Baptist.
GRIN.

To be honest, that lack of separation helped me on my journey.

By: arpritchett

arpritchett — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:16:17 +0000

Some of these things are traps that are really easy to fall into. I think the “What lepers will you touch today?” is a well-meaning question, and it is applicative in a secondary or tertiary sense, but to speak of it only in that way takes the focus off of Jesus as the realization that God is more wonderful than the people of his day (and we) expected.

“What’s that in your hand?” Seriously? This happened? That’s close to Snopes-worthy in my opinion.

I’m always struck by the emphasis that Matthew 5:27-30 receives in regard to adultery but how we pass over the admonitions of 5:21-26. Either they’re both incredibly weighty or they’re both not.

By: Tim W

Tim W — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 15:15:15 +0000

I used to lead a bible study, and I felt like it was my job to challenge everyone by making them respond to my application questions. I felt like unless I had pricked their consciences and gotten a satisfactory answer from them as to how exactly they planned to apply the message to their lives, then I’d failed.

Eventually I realized that there is no one size fits all approach, and I was trying to shoe-horn them in to the box of my own creation.

Sometimes I’d have a realyl great study planned and then be annoyed when they either didn’t comprehend it or just didn’t find the topic as interesting as I myself found it. I was annoyed when i didn’t get the reaction I wanted. I imagine pastors probably feel similarly.

By: iMonk

iMonk — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:19:12 +0000

Cedric: See the “Older Comments” Tab please. At the end of the comments thread.

By: Cedric

Cedric — Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:17:18 +0000

OK, I didn’t get done reading the then-30+ comments last night before I had to leave. Now, I’m back- there are 99 comments but only two are visible? I hope they are in the process of being checked & posted or else, man, that is a powerful heap of Moderatin’! (As Jethro Bodine would say!)