Comments on: More Reasons Why the Assemblies of God are headed for Serious Trouble: Its Youth Programs!

By: bill

bill — Sun, 06 Apr 2008 10:42:03 +0000

heaven help us. oh God revive thy work

By: Editor

Editor — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 19:33:10 +0000

PS,

Apologies but the Pharisee label is a very old and abused cliche. If you knew your Bible you would know that the label of Pharisee has no application here, on the contrary it perfectly describes what is going on at Relevant Ministries.

You see the Pharisee’s were guilty of tagging on man made cultural adaptations called the Oral Tradition onto the Word of God. It was called the “tradition of the elders”.

They wanted to make the Word of God more culturally relevant, and they wanted to exhalt themselves instead of God.

What you fail to see is that adapting the Gospel to a fallen culture and using its gore to try and attract young people IS adding a tradition onto the Word of God and it makes the Word of God of none affect, in other words it buries the Truth of the word of God under a mountain of cultural baggage! Jesus called it adding weights around the necks of those who the Pharisee’s were supposed to be Spiritual Leaders for.

Also you have absolutely no Biblical Support for what you are saying, while I have provided plenty to show the truth of what I have written.

And what you call the harvest field places like Relevant Ministries is turning into a weed field! Come back when you can show some Bblical support for your indignation.

Otherwise I am not interested in your indignation at someone taking a very Biblical Stand against those who wish to make the Church and the unsaved world indistinguishable from one another.

By: PS

PS — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 19:09:00 +0000

Wow, this is amazing. Because it doesn’t fit your description of Christianity, you are now like the Pharisees, you fight the work of the harvest because it brakes your traditions. Jesus had to deal with people like you all the time, in fact, He offended them everyday by not adhering to there comfort zones. Remember, it was our grand parents that said movies and music would send people to hell, so the church stayed away from using main stream media, so we lost a whole generation of young people. Our biggest resistance is from Christians like you that spend more time attacking Christians then they do working in the harvest field. If what God is doing doesn’t fit into their religious box, don’t cut it down, find out what The Lord needs you to do and get to work. PS.

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By: john

john — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 02:55:05 +0000

Amen to that Rachel!

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 02 Aug 2007 18:57:38 +0000

I went on this club relevant site. Some of what I saw was shocking and disturbing. Clicking onto individual bands I saw Led Zepplin and Iron Maiden shirts. It is hard to imagine believing yourself to be a follower of Christ and wearing these images. (-although I have committed terrible sins while calling myself Christian, so I can imagine it- God forgive me and continue to lead me to repentance.)

I just feel for these souls. They seem self-deceived. Once in Christ we are a NEW creature, like the demon posessed man of Gadera. They found him in his right mind, clothed, sitting at the feet of Jesus. He wasn’t jumping around, dirty, acting crazy. He was changed by God. Cleansed and beautiful.

Love in Christ,
Rachel