Church Hopping

“Duplication for resale prohibited. Duplication for ministry purposes encouraged.” That is the statement on the bottom of a CD of sermons I have from Denton Bible Church. Using other material in churches is nothing new. Bible studies have been passed around and even sold for a while now. When I was working in youth ministry, our youth pastor purchased a curriculum that we used as a guide for what to teach in small groups and on Sundays.

I wonder though if there is a limit for copying material.

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I am in no way in touch with the latest and greatest in “Christian” music anymore. There was a time when I feel I knew what was going on. I think I drifted away from it due to the declining quality (though maybe I’m just backsliding in morality). There is a bizarre trend that is going on in “Christian” music that I have never seen in any other genre or industry that I know of.
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Are you struggling to find a Scripture to tell you whether or not it is ok to smoke cigarettes? You probably will not find it without a little creative interpretation, but if you still require justification for not smoking, check out this article about smoking and Bible production. Bibles have to be printed on special thin paper in order for them to be portable.
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According to Dr. Albert Mohler, there seems to be a movement towards gender neutral language when referring to God. Last year the Presbyterian Church received a document that called for the Father, Son and Holy Spirit to be renamed. Some of the suggested replacements were Sun, Light and Burning Ray or Fire That Consumes, Sword That Divides and Storm That Melts Mountains. Of course there was also a strictly female suggestion of Compassionate Mother, Beloved Child and Life-Giving Womb.
Most of you will probably just laugh this off since in the Bible, God the Father is never referred to as female and you’ve never seen a female picture of Jesus (though never a non-white Jesus either). However a little research will reveal that the Hebrew word for Spirit (ruwach), is actually a feminine noun.

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I watched Nightline on ABC the other day and paused on it to watch a segment titled “Muscular Christianity.” It was a segment about a conference called God Men that was held in Franklin, Tennessee. The men running the conference say that

60% of church-goers are women and there are manlier ways to be a Christian that what we were taught growing up

The whole premise of the conference is to prevent men from getting the idea that in order to be a Christian you have to take on passivity and weakness. They even go as far as to say “a meek and mild Jesus is eventually a bore.”

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