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Posted on 03/28/2008 6:29:54 PM PDT by Huntress
SEATTLE — In an effort to broaden his ministry's reach, evangelist Jeremy Balfour has started using filthy words he'd once banned from his vocabulary.
"I've been an evangelist for ten f***ing years and I've never felt such f***ing freedom," he says during an interview.
Balfour's change of heart came when he realized that obscene words are a key to open the hearts of many unsaved people.
"With some people, you're not in their club unless you get R-rated in your speech," Balfour says. "They test your allegiance to their culture. A few choice s***heads and f*** yous can build trust. And at what cost? Nothing."
So-called "bad words" are not explicitly prohibited in the Bible, he says. He quotes 2 Corinthians 11:6 ("my new life verse") which says in part, "But though I be rude in speech, yet not in knowledge." In the sub-cultures he hopes to reach, vulgarity is defined differently than in church, he says.
"So-called bad language isn't shocking there," he says. "You can say something like ..."
He reels off a string of vulgarities that would turn a sailor beet red.
"See?" he says with a laugh. "You're embarrassed by it. I'm not. I'm comfortable with the language."
To date, Balfour says he's seen several dozen people come to the Lord at bars, ball games and dance clubs, some of them cussing their way through the sinner's prayer.
"I'll put my hand on their shoulder and they'll say, 'Lord, I'm an a**hole. I've f***ed up my life pretty bad. Please forgive all the s*** in my past. I give you my future,'" he says. "Then they'll smile and hug me and say, 'D***, that's the f****** awesomest feeling I've ever had.'"
Balfour's home church quietly asked him to move his office elsewhere, and he has trouble getting invitations to raise money in churches. "I use the same language there, but they can't take it," he says. Even his wife isn't used to his new approach, but "that's all right," he says, laughing. "She's a good ho." •
Bite me Balfour.
No f****n’ way!
Way? Yes, THE way.
Speechless.
I’m speechless......
We'll pass. Just a warning, and heads up to others.
Pottymouth Pulpit PING.
please, it’s not a “real” news article.
*LOL* Well sometimes these days its hard to tell...
But now ye also put off all these; anger, wrath, malice, blasphemy, filthy communication out of your mouth.
Oh My!
Mega-barf!
“Lord, I’m an a**hole. I’ve f***ed up my life pretty bad. Please forgive all the s*** in my past. I give you my future.... D***, that’s the f****** awesomest feeling I’ve ever had.”
At first I thought this guy was part of the “emergent church,” and was prepared to dismiss him.
While I think vulgarities shouldn’t be part of a Christian’s vocabulary, I actually find this man’s “sinner’s prayer” to be pretty powerful. His sentiments are **right on target**.
...the first Protestant Irish-American preacher? He may as well add more obvious vulgarities about filth to the blasphemies and polytheism.
[Little irony and sarcasm there. A little over 150 years ago, this was America.]
Yea, I remember that part in the Bible that says not only to be in the world be of the world.
Thank goodness that mankind is figuring out ways to reach other humans. Apparently, God can’t do it himself. Silly me, I thought the Holy Spirit drew people. (sarc.)
How repulsive. I''m glad I'm not married to this guy.
How are we supposed to know that? This is Seattle, after all. Anything is possible here.
Yes, I had to wonder for a moment if Lark had decided to start running hard news.
Sigh*
Too bad Mr. Balfour isn't speechless.
This is nothing like what is in the King James Version 2 Corinthians 11:6
Even just the name "lark" news, first ignited suspicion.
You are right. It's hard to tell. Hmmm, I wonder if the islamics will pick it up, and circulate it like it's actual coin? or circulate it like the counterfeit notes they sold to the Egyptian merchants after the Gaza wall was breached?
what a pathetic collection.............
The man is, no doubt, “vexed with the filthy conversation of the wicked”. (2 Pet 2:7)
I recognize it because of “been there, done that”.
LOL.
The scriptural admonition to let no corrupt communication proceed from your mouth trumps this nonsense.
I’m sure he could schedule a Revival Meeting in the church of the Right Reverend Jeremiah Wright.
A clue, you found a clue!
Try going to the link. It won't take long to see that the place is dedicated to making mocking ridicule of christians in various ways.
After I posted clear warnings that this was satire, people are still falling for it???
Geez...
On the other hand, hat's off to you for knowing your bible, or being in the habit of checking quoted passages. A habit worth emulating!
Oh you “brood of vipers” ...
Oh you “brood of vipers” ...
Oh you “brood of vipers” ...
I totally disagree with this idea.
Accepting Christ brings about a CHANGE. If your language doesn’t change, then did you really make the change in your heart?
I don’t agree with this method - because people who are lost need to see SOMETHING DIFFERENT - otherwise - why accept Jesus.
(we all agree....that’s why this piece is labeled SATIRE....)
Guys, all your indignant replies to this thread are cute and all, but Lark News is...how shall I put this...satire. Evangelist Jeremy Balfour does not exist; it’s entirely made up. You’ve been had.
WHERE is it labeled “Satire?”
Look up Mark Driscoll
This guy is Mocking God himself and God will not be mocked.
Don’t be surprised if this is not the last bit of news about this guy.
If God has anymore mercy reserved for this guy, something is going to happen to hopefully bring him to his senses.
I'm quite familiar with him. This is still satire.
Well, it worked for the formerly esteemed Rev. Jeremiah Wright, why can’t it work in North La La land?
Understood
Have we?
Any relation to this guy
http://youtube.com/watch?v=4EBcrUCXZt0
This guys is going to be surprised: http://www.charlottechapel.org,
guess I should have listened to his sermons rather than assume.
As I read this post, and recall the hateful rhetoric of “Pastor” Wright - I feel as if the Left Behind series is coming alive... How evil loves to twist everything that is sacred. These people, IMHO, are very very far from our Lord Jesus Christ.
He's going to be surprised that a pastor with a different first name (Jeremy, not Ian) in a different city (Seattle, not Edinburgh) doesn't exist? Because there's a real pastor with the last name Balfour somewhere in the world this story isn't satire? I don't follow your reasoning.
Yep.
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