A pastor used ‘a dirt bike’ to demonstrate unity; he's demonstrating healing…
Jeff Harlow, the senior pastor at Crossroads Community Church, broke his wrist when he lost control of the motorcycle at the start of Sunday's second service, driving off a 5-foot platform and into the vacant first row of seats. He underwent surgery on the wrist Monday. "Jeff has already laughed a lot, so he's OK. I think his pride was bruised," said his wife, Becky.
Becky Harlow said her husband had recently attended a motorcycle race in Buchanan, Michigan. "He had this idea that he would bring this bike out onstage and show people how the rider would become one with the bike," she told the Kokomo Tribune. "He was going to just sit on it and drive it out. He was just walking the dirt bike out onstage and somehow it got away from him. It was not intended."
No one else was hurt. Jeff Harlow had performed the demonstration at earlier services Saturday night and Sunday morning without incident. Ouch, and prayers.
Can you be a Christian and deny the Deity of the Savior you profess to believe in…?
And further you can even be inducted into the Southern Gospel Music Hall of Fame as was Joel Hemphill in 2007. In his 2007 book To God Be The Glory: Exalting the Bible View of God Hemphill clearly denies the Deity of Christ, a cardinal doctrine of the historic orthodox Christian faith. Just so there’s no mistake about his heresy and blasphemy concerning Jesus Christ in his response to criticism Hemphill says: The focus of my book isn't what Jesus is not, but rather who God the Father is. God is immortal - Jesus was not. Hebrews teaches, and I believe that Jesus did not come in the God family (there is only one God), or the angel family, but in the human family (Heb. 2:7, 9). He is perfect, sinless man, but man nevertheless! Apprising News
Acting like Hemphill, PBS takes their cue on the Bible…
Abraham didn't exist? The Exodus didn't happen? The Bible's Buried Secrets, a new PBS documentary, is likely to cause a furor. "It challenges the Bible's stories if you want to read them literally, and that will disturb many people," says archaeologist William Dever, who specializes in Israel's history. "But it explains how and why these stories ever came to be told in the first place, and how and why they were written down." The Nova program will premiere Nov. 18. PBS presented a clip and a panel discussion at the summer tour of the Television Critics Association. Orlando Sentinel
The future of church is ‘smaller churches’ and relationships…
I see a valuable role for the Lakewoods and Seconds and Fellowships of the world (those churches with 3,000-plus in worship each week). I like to think of them as "front door churches" - churches that provide an opportunity for people with or no experience of the Christian faith to enter for the first time and find something positive. There may not be much intimacy or depth of teaching, but it may at least be a good introduction to something deeper. My assumption is that if people walk through these very large "front door churches," they would be intrigued by the faith, take responsibility for it and either get more involved or join a smaller church down the road. Houston Chronicle
