Would you let cameras inside your home, to record the intimate affairs taking place inside your own personal life? Would you engage in partnership with the world, to let secular producers create the image of Christianity they saw more marketable for their carnal agendas? Well, believe it or not, bishop Noel Jones and bishop Clerence McClendon are coming out with a new reality show call pastors of LA. Is anybody, anywhere capable of defending and justifying this latest act of mockery and ridicule of the Christian faith?
So let's give credit to bishop McClendon in a recent interview he tried to defend his latest reality show appearance. More impressively he even attempted to justified his behavior on scriptural grounds. Thou I sincerely appreciate that the bishop is still reading the bible, attempting to make decisions in his reading of the scriptures, this new revelation of his seemed hermeneuticaly flawed. According to McClendon people wanted to know where Jesus, this great prophet of Nazareth was living, so Jesus replied come and see(John 1:39).
There it is!! God wanted for pastors to have reality shows!! Really!? When Christ invited the people to his house he was speaking to disciples, who by the way were in the process of becoming his own followers for his inner circle. It was a very intimate, private and personal gesture that won their hearts over to encounter a deeper connection and relationship with Him.
The scripture Mccledon is using would actually make the opposite point that he is trying to convey. Christ actions were not public it was only for the ones who desire to know Him in his unique purpose, teaching and apostolic partnership. But even if we were to accept this text on grounds of principle as a validation for allowing cameras into your home. What did the disciples found in Christ house? Divorce? Carnality? Drama? Lavish life styles? No. They found the glory of God. They saw a holy and consecrated life upholding his vocation full of grace and truth. Not exactly what pastors of L A illustrate in their reality show. If you don't have anything to show of Christ virtue in your life then close the doors of your house.
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