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centerpin fan
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An excellent and completely unsurprising article.
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centerpin fan
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This quote caught my eye:
This reminded me of a recent moment of channel-surfing. I was flipping through the channels, and the listing for Andy Stanley's telecast popped up. (Andy is pastor of Northpoint, one of the biggest mega-churches in the country.)
What struck me was how incredibly vague the description of the show was. There was absolutely no mention of Christianity. If I didn't know who AS is, I'd have no idea this was a telecast of a sermon. I can't remember the exact description, but it was very similar to what's on their website:
http://yourmove.is/
I've never been to Northpoint, but I really doubt it could be described as "Bible-less". (His dad's church could certainly never be described that way.) However, is the gospel all about "innovative ideas designed to simplify and enhance life for its audience"?
This reminded me of a recent moment of channel-surfing. I was flipping through the channels, and the listing for Andy Stanley's telecast popped up. (Andy is pastor of Northpoint, one of the biggest mega-churches in the country.)
What struck me was how incredibly vague the description of the show was. There was absolutely no mention of Christianity. If I didn't know who AS is, I'd have no idea this was a telecast of a sermon. I can't remember the exact description, but it was very similar to what's on their website:
http://yourmove.is/
I've never been to Northpoint, but I really doubt it could be described as "Bible-less". (His dad's church could certainly never be described that way.) However, is the gospel all about "innovative ideas designed to simplify and enhance life for its audience"?
rjcruiser
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This quote caught my eye:
This reminded me of a recent moment of channel-surfing. I was flipping through the channels, and the listing for Andy Stanley's telecast popped up. (Andy is pastor of Northpoint, one of the biggest mega-churches in the country.)
What struck me was how incredibly vague the description of the show was. There was absolutely no mention of Christianity. If I didn't know who AS is, I'd have no idea this was a telecast of a sermon. I can't remember the exact description, but it was very similar to what's on their website:
http://yourmove.is/
I've never been to Northpoint, but I really doubt it could be described as "Bible-less". (His dad's church could certainly never be described that way.) However, is the gospel all about "innovative ideas designed to simplify and enhance life for its audience"?
There are a lot of interesting statistics about the amount of people in the US that claim to be Christians yet don't have a clue about any of it.
And as far as Andy Stanley, I've never been to NorthPoint either. I will say, he's said a few things over the past few months that have gotten him in a bit of trouble in more conservative Christian circles. He's tried to walk some of the comments back and tried to explain what he meant, but they were a bit unsettling imo.
660griz
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Now, if we could just get Islam to ignore more of the Quran...
jmharris23
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There's always hope....but the Muslims don't cave as easily as the Christians.
Miguel Cervantes
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jmharris23
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Believe me....as a pastor in a Christian church, this doesn't surprise me in even the least little way.
centerpin fan
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My rough definition: over 10,000 in weekly attendance and multiple locations.
centerpin fan
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I knew it wouldn't. Do you have an explanation for the ignorance of many Christians?
jmharris23
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Yes....mostly they don't read their bible.
Secondly, because they don't read their bible, IF they go to a church, it is often one that preaches an extra biblical message on topics such as ....How to Have a Happy______, 5 Keys to a great Sex Life, How to Keep Your Children From Hating You, and many other exciting topics!
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Miguel Cervantes
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Excellent starting point. Given a baseline such as that we can now start picking them one at a time from this data sheet and exploring their doctrine and how the OP data compares to the real world results of our findings.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_the_largest_Protestant_churches_in_the_United_States
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