Comments on: advice to young pastors: don’t fall for devil-pact boo-honkey

By: Mark

Mark — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 15:30:56 +0000

To all of you, didn’t Ken just write,

“We’re lazy. We prefer simple answers that we can grasp easily that seem to explain everything.”

My friends, couldn’t the same be said about the evangelical or fundamentalistic versions of our religious beliefs in general, and justifiably so? Honestly, couldn’t it?

By: Don Bromley

Don Bromley — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 03:27:13 +0000

I looked up “boo-honkey” in the Urban Dictionary, and apparently it’s slang for BUTT.

By: Germain

Germain — Sun, 31 Jan 2010 14:03:35 +0000

Thanks for the post, Ken. Please keep this up. My daughter is not a Christian, but she wants to be. The comments of people like PR drive her away. We need people like you to stand up and show her and those who want to be persuaded that following Jesus doesn’t have to look like that.

By: Phil

Phil — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 21:58:31 +0000

Jon M- I have cancer because I drank in college my freshman year. I just wanted to get that out there before I got called out at church.

On a more serious note, I appreciate everyone’s struggle to make sense of the statement made by PR. I like the tension. It looks like there is a lot of learning going on. Dialogue is key. Ken- thank for initiating it. Posters- thanks for posting.

By: Dan Diebel

Dan Diebel — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 17:54:28 +0000

Well put Ken. We live in a fallen world where tragic things happen. Rather than taking the lazy path of pointing fingers, fixing the blame and making excuses, we need to do the hard work of ministering and cooperating with God to use even the bad things to bring about good.

By: commonman

commonman — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:16:50 +0000

Joao, Here is one list I found on the top ten happiest countries. http://www.tripbase.com/blog/top-10-happiest-countries-in-the-world/.
It looks like most of these countries are nominally christian and socially progressive.

By: Jon Miller

Jon Miller — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:25:58 +0000

What if we start taking this approach of pointing out people’s past transgressions whenever new people visit our Churches? We could call them to the front of the congregation. For example, “Bob’s been going through a rough patch lately, he lost his job lately, his house is being foreclosed on and his wife is about to file for divorce. Now just so everyone is fully aware Bob has been known to verbally abused his wife and kids, cheat on his wife, and he is addicted to pain killers. He’s even dabbled in the occult recently looking for answers and there is some evidence for some generational sin involving incest in his bloodlines. Okay, now that we’ve gotten that out of the way, what can we do to help this mand and lead him to Christ.”

Do we really think Bob will ever step foot in a Church again after this, let alone repent and give his life over to Christ?

By: Sethu

Sethu — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:14:41 +0000

In a lot of the comments here, there seems to be an anxiety to defend somebody who routinely weighs in after disasters with a comment about God’s judgment. How is PR qualified to do that? How does the Bible lead PR or any of us to do that? Isn’t this out-of-bounds? Aren’t we led by Jesus in the Gospels away from this sort of thing? Why would any Christian want to go there? Isn’t this the opposite of what we are asked to do, and isn’t it against what we are asked to do? Or do I not understand correctly what Jesus asks us to do and tells us not to do?

By: Belfry

Belfry — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 14:08:07 +0000

Jon, yes! Exactly.

By: Jon Miller

Jon Miller — Sat, 30 Jan 2010 02:57:58 +0000

Okay fine. Haiti has a history godlessness, corruption, and vodoo.

What does this have to do with the fact that these people are desperately poor and they have just experienced a horrific tragedy? Why is so important that we make sure this history is duly noted and acknowleged by all before we give them the help that they need? And how does pointing all this out going to help to lead any of these people to Christ?