Points of Interest
January 26th, 2009
(By Nathan Williams)
This has to be one of the saddest stories I have read in some time. It discusses Ted Haggard and his reflections on the scandal that cost him his ministry two years ago. Here is one of the saddest lines in the whole piece:
“And I call it my sin,” he says. “That’s my sin. I’m not saying everybody is a sinner that does it. I’m just saying with my standards and my values, it was a sin against me and God. For me.”
That’s right. That is a church and that is a car in the roof of the church. Watch this video.
A Christian school in Dallas fired it’s girls basketball coach because his team beat another school 100-0. He is not apologizing.
sad indeed!
“And I call it my sin,” he says. “That’s my sin. I’m not saying everybody is a sinner that does it. I’m just saying with my standards and my values, it was a sin against me and God. For me.”
And this is a statement from a guy who got to the top of the National Association of Evangelicals in the USA. Makes you wonder just what on earth is going on in evangelicalism today.
A profoundly sad and anti-biblical statement.
“So this whole idea of sexuality being complex: I can see that it is so wrong of us to compartmentalize us and to label people. I am hoping that through all of this we’ll learn how to, instead of label people and put them in categories, that we’ll learn to really listen to each other and really see each other and have compassion for each other. Because the last thing we need to do is burden people who are just trying to work out their lives.” -Haggard’s wife
There’s a whole lot of Satan in that statement. Human wisdom from the angel of light. And the Church is becoming more and more like the humanistic culture we are suppose to be salt in. But if the salt has lost its saltiness, then it is good for nothing, and is cast out and tred upon, not even good for the dunghill.
The Church is losing its salt.
I don’t understand how that car got up on that roof! Weird.