Let's Not Do This, Please?!

The following quote comes from 'Why We Are Not Emergent" by DeYoung and Kluck.

"After going to a Christian college, it seemed as if it was almost a requirement, when meeting with college friends, to serve alcohol..., talk about how newly open-minded we were, and how oppressive our school had been.  Shock value was king.  It was almost an unspoken race to see who could shock whom the most.  Questions were the new answers."

This is one of the biggest and most subtle problem with our college.  To rebel for the sake of rebellion is to turn your face away from Christ.

Rick Warren and His Prayer

At Obama's inauguration today, Rick Warren will pray, and he will invoke the name of Jesus.  He will do this despite threats of lawsuits from atheists.  Let's pray for Warren and that situation.

Gene Robinson, the openly gap Episcopalian Bishop, will also pray at the inauguration, but he will be addressing his prayer to "the god of our many understandings".  I would like to suggest that he does not know the God whom Christ reveals, or is seemingly in open rebellion against the revealed God.  That such people are in our part of the Church of Christ is frighteningly dangerous and immensely sad.  Again, let's pray for Robinson.

The full article is here.