What do These Stories Tell us?

I have said it many times before. Just when I think I have heard it all, something else comes along that makes me eat my words.

Here are two cases in point.

First, a church in Indiana is airing radio and TV commercials and has purchased billboards, promoting e series of meetings on sex. In fact, they make the statement that God wants us to have “great sex”.

The “church” is Granger Community Church in Granger, Indiana and needless to say, they are of the seeker-sensitive variety, receiving glowing endorsement from Rick Warren and Bill Hybels. On their website, they state:” In fact, this may shock you but...God wants you to have GREAT SEX. In this series, we’ll ask questions and begin to unravel the myths and confusion about sex.” They go on to ask the question, “Can you handle it?”

I could list the topics discussed, but that is really unnecessary. The billboards used to promote the event featured two pairs of feet sticking out from under a bed sheet. The “pastor” is Mark Beeson and he was interviewed on Fox and Friends on the FOX News Channel over the weekend. (You can listen to the interview at web page at www.wqbc.net and click on the February 21 episode.) Again it was a sad and offensive display by someone who claims the Name of Christ, yet cannot or will not be faithful in proclaiming His Gospel and for His cause. Were it not for FOX’s Julian Phillips, one would not even know whether the interview was with a pastor or a sex therapist. Beeson said the event was designed to attract people to the church. Phillips had to force Beeson to admit that the event was intended to focus on sex between a man and a woman within the bounds of matrimony. The pastor was very reluctant to admit even that.

Secondly,Dr. Albert Mohler reports in one of his blogs this week entitled Jesus, Superman, and the Perils of Superficiality, reporting that religious educators in Great Britain plan to use Superman as a way of getting school children to think about Jesus.

Dr. Mohler reports, “This is how Gledhill introduces her report: The comic book hero Superman is to be used by religious education teachers in Britain to help youngsters understand the concept of Jesus Christ. School children will be told that Superman is like Jesus because both arrived on earth in usual circumstances after being sent here by their fathers, both move from relative obscurity as a child to a more prominent adulthood, both help the humans they are sent to live with and both struggle to stand up for truth against injustice and evil. Superman is just one of among the Hollywood icons being enlisted to help children better understand their country's majority religion of Christianity.

Now, I have seen some really awful ideas in my time, but this one ranks with the very worst. When Jesus isn't interesting enough, bring in Superman. We should note that this kind of banality is just what you should expect from state-run religion classes, even in Britain, which has an established Christian church. Still, this looks like a joke at first glance.

Don't laugh. It isn't."

I am offended, saddened and disappointed, but not surprised. In this man-centered, sin-soaked world, in these last days, the enemy is pulling out all of the stops. This is more evidence that we must be totally dedicated to preaching the true Gospel, without fear or favor, with boldness and conviction.

“Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils; Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;” 1 Timothy 4:1,2


“This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.” 2 Timothy 3:1-5

“For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ: for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth; to the Jew first, and also to the Greek.” Romans 1:16