Saturday, July 16, 2011

"Know ye not that the unrighteous shall not inherit the kingdom of God? Be not deceived: neither fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor effeminate, nor abusers of themselves with mankind, Nor thieves, nor covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor extortioners, shall inherit the kingdom of God." I Corinthians 6

[This article from Prophecy News Watch was posted with heaviness of heart. Forgive them LORD they know not what they do].

'Not what one might expect as at least 25 Christian music festivals are held each summer in America, BUT they have never catered to theological liberals ~~ until this year, that is.  The Wild Goose Festival—named after a Celtic symbol for the Holy Spirit—kicked off on 72 wooded acres in eastern North Carolina, not so far from the intellectual hub of Raleigh-Durham.

Instead of Bible studies, there were labyrinth walks. Instead of praise-and-worship music, there was hymn-singing in a beer garden and a bluegrass liturgy presided over by a tattooed female Lutheran minister. Visitors were greeted with buckets of water in which to baptize themselves, and tubs of mud to remind them that “dust thou art”~~Visitors could learn from Tom Prasada-Rao, a singer, how to chant “Om” and “Hallelujah Hare Krishna”, or hear Paul Fromberg, a pastor from San Francisco, talking about his 2005 wedding to another man. “God is changing the church through the bodies of gay men,” he told a packed session on human sexuality. Also under discussion was “religious multiple belonging”—in other words, belonging to a clutch of different faiths at once.

Jay Bakker, son of Jim and Tammy Bakker gave meandering talks on growing up fundamentalist. Frank Schaeffer, who has made a career out of criticizing his evangelical parents Francis and Edith Schaeffer, called the Bible “Bronze-Age mythology” and confessed he had a “conflicted ambivalence” about abortion.

Many mainline Protestants seemed delighted by the festival, and may well latch on to the emergents to shore up their shrinking numbers. Buoyed by their success, Wild Goose’s organizers plan to repeat the festival next year in the same bucolic place.'

"Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap.For he that soweth to his flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption; but he that soweth to the Spirit shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting." Galatians 6

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