Posted on 07/17/2006 10:19:32 AM PDT by The Lumster
TAMPA - It may have been the least likely place for a man who doesn't believe in God to receive a standing ovation, but it happened Sunday morning when Joe Redner went to church.
Bishop Randy White, senior pastor at Without Walls International Church, invited the strip club owner to join him in the pulpit and talk about his campaign for the Hillsborough County Commission District 5 seat.
"All right, he's not running for pastor. My job's not up," White jokingly told parishioners while introducing Redner, as their continued applause prompted Redner to stand and nod his head in thanks.
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This coming from a not so holy roller.
You know all those churches you see on the TBN type networks, where psyching up is the name of the game?
It's got a lot of people, and I am sure there are some true Christians in it, but when I saw Paula White shaking her leg out in front of the pulpit, pointing at it and screaming, "That's the Holy Spirit!" - words fail me.
False prophets ?
""Joe Redner is not a practicing politician. I like that about him," :
He might be a drug dealer tho. Many strippers use drugs.
"He's a man of integrity. He's never lied to me."
What about a meth dealer who tells you the truth?
What kind of church?
It was also televised. Sounds to me like the Church of the Almighty Dollar.
The Church of What's Happenin' Now.
Sounds like they are "health and wealth" type preachers..am I correct?
Wow. Lots of really "tolerant" Christians here, aren't there?
Sounds Unitarian to me. No wonder they'd allow a strip club owner to speak there.
Paula White pastored Michael Jackson and Daryl Strawberry.
Went to church for all the thong reasons.
Show me where in the bible it says Christians are to tolerate sin?
I won't hold my breath, because it's not there.
Tolerance becomes crime when applied to evil. Thomas Mann
May I add "becomes a sin and crime" when applied to evil.
You have a problem with that?
Bishop White is actually a bastor, busy perverting the purpose and function of a Christian church.
Revoke the church's tax exempt status.
Remembering a verse in the bible isn't very helpful.
We aren't condemning the man to death, or seeking to punish him.
But christians are to discern good from evil, to espouse the good and reject the evil, to flee temptation. We aren't saying the state should force TBN off the air, we are just saying their message is not christianity, their approach is evil, and calling them a "christian church" is an affront to real christians everywhere.
We "tolerate" them just fine, because we don't seek to destroy them. We don't "accept" them or their message, which is an entirely DIFFERENT thing than "tolerating", which as South Park so correctly described, means to "put up with something you find reprehensible".
Well, isn't that better than a self-righteous, judgmental hypocrite? (ahem)
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