Pastors Of L.A (Reality Show) - New Reality Show?
Reality tv? There is nothing real about scripted story lines and contrived plots created for the fleshly entertainment of a worldly audience. Why do you think these specific individuals were chosen for the preachers of LA reality show? I am sorry to burst your bubble but they were not chosen because they were so godly, anointed and special in the kingdom of God. In fact 3 of the lineup preachers have multiple scandals under their name and 2 of the last 3 live and preach under what might be considered very extravagant and extreme circumstances. These individuals are all very carefully selected because of their particular personalities, their intense dispositions and their outspoken mentality. All these scenes and scenarios you see on your screen are the invention of creative writers and the intentions of innovative directors who have an agenda and mind of their own.
What is their goal? What exactly is their specific aim? Mainly, their interest is the manipulation of emotions, the induction of personal conflict, and the sensationalizing of characters for the necessary drama that can manufacture public interest in their new reality tv stars. Preachers of LA is not a Christian show even by the admission of some of the very participants of the show. It is at best a bad soap opera and at worst a sick joke on the true Christian Church of Jesus Christ. The exploitation of the suffering and pain of people for the profit of fame and the market of tv ratings is not a genuine expression of the loving ministry of Jesus Christ. How preachers today are exposing their families and their member's lives for the amusement of secular producers and the mockery of our depraved American pop-culture is a new low even for our modern versions of Christianity.
Read Part #1 http://realityofgodchurch.blogspot.com/2013/07/pastors-of-la-reality-show_30.html
Perhaps the most amazing and interesting feature of this insane spectacle is the delusional state of mind of the participants of the reality show, preachers of LA. They sincerely believe that they are accomplishing a great work for the Lord. They cannot even realize the mockery they are making of themselves! I imagine they reason among themselves that going to 80 million homes, appearing on multiple media events and promoting their new image of reality stardom is a great opportunity for them to proclaim the blessing of the Lord on their lives. After all, the spirit behind most of the preaching done inside our churches today is driven by the exaltation of self, the glorification of our ego, and the promotion of human success at any or at all cost. Therefore, what better manifestation of all these virtues than becoming a reality star on your own reality show!!
I don't know what is worse, that all of these preachers are so self-deluded that they actually believe that this is a great new ministry venue for the church or that the Christian world is so blind and naive that they cannot see thru the smoke and mirrors created by the preachers of LA?
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Purposeless State of Reality/ Biblical Criticism
Purposeless State of Reality/ Biblical Criticism
There are some similarities between what evolution has done with biology in the scientific field and what biblical criticism is attempting to do with hermeneutics in the field of biblical theology. For example, I see they are both tackling the question of origins and the powerful evidence for the inspiration of the creator by obscuring the vision of the divine behind all the information found in both the natural and scriptural revelation.
They are both appealing to the view of random blinded processes involving slow modifications that always get further away from the original state of things, distorting the beauty of God's clear message in exchange for a view of a chaotic and confusing purposeless state of reality.
The objective behind these theories is to remove and blur the perspective of God from both the inspiration of the scriptures and the divine design found within creation. If nature and the text were randomly modified from generation to generation, then what confidence or substance can be left within the content of their revelations for us to have reverence, respect and worship in a personal intimate relationship with God? The alternative to this would be a deist version of a god that is some how involved but ultimately, hopelessly removed from the events of both history and humanity.
This to me is the obvious way modern man resolves his issues with morality and idolatry. Who cares what the text says about my iniquity if maybe there was another version that did not mention some of the sins I read in my scriptures today. Who cares what I do with my spirituality and my version of god if we are all an evolving soup trying to modify our view of god and ourselves in the gradual process of a random meaningless existence. There are many responsible models for evolution and biblical criticism but I feel I wrote too much already, so I will let the rest of those who read draw the final analysis of these thoughts into their logical implications and proper conclusions...be blessed, keep your peace and I pray we all stay focus in the faith that was once delivered to us.
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There are some similarities between what evolution has done with biology in the scientific field and what biblical criticism is attempting to do with hermeneutics in the field of biblical theology. For example, I see they are both tackling the question of origins and the powerful evidence for the inspiration of the creator by obscuring the vision of the divine behind all the information found in both the natural and scriptural revelation.
They are both appealing to the view of random blinded processes involving slow modifications that always get further away from the original state of things, distorting the beauty of God's clear message in exchange for a view of a chaotic and confusing purposeless state of reality.
The objective behind these theories is to remove and blur the perspective of God from both the inspiration of the scriptures and the divine design found within creation. If nature and the text were randomly modified from generation to generation, then what confidence or substance can be left within the content of their revelations for us to have reverence, respect and worship in a personal intimate relationship with God? The alternative to this would be a deist version of a god that is some how involved but ultimately, hopelessly removed from the events of both history and humanity.
This to me is the obvious way modern man resolves his issues with morality and idolatry. Who cares what the text says about my iniquity if maybe there was another version that did not mention some of the sins I read in my scriptures today. Who cares what I do with my spirituality and my version of god if we are all an evolving soup trying to modify our view of god and ourselves in the gradual process of a random meaningless existence. There are many responsible models for evolution and biblical criticism but I feel I wrote too much already, so I will let the rest of those who read draw the final analysis of these thoughts into their logical implications and proper conclusions...be blessed, keep your peace and I pray we all stay focus in the faith that was once delivered to us.
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The Coming of Christ
The Coming of Christ
When the bible talks about the return of Christ it uses the words apokalupsis, epiphaneia and parausia. These three words capture the paradoxical insight of the “already/not yet” tension within the Kingdom of God.
Perhaps a better way to understand the coming of Christ is to grasp the power, significance and influence of the fact that the King and His Kingdom has already come in all His fullness in Christ and as a result of what has already happened thru His work and person, He has not stop coming to all His creation ever since.
He is still showing His glory in revelation-- apokalupsis. He is still manifesting Himself to the worshipper--epiphania and His royal procession keeps arriving thru out all of His territory within creation in great visitation and demonstration of His presence and power--parausia. There will be one last final push in all of this birthing process that will like none other in the resurrection of the dead, the transformation of the cosmos, and the destruction of evil.
But perhaps we have focused so much in this final moment that we have isolated and narrowed Christ’s coming into one single event, disconnected from all that He has already done and is still trying to do throughout all the earth through us.
What if this last final scatological birthing push is in reality the accumulation of all previous divine interventions, reaching a climax thru our Kingdom participation in the fulfillment of our responsibility and vocation in the great commission? Is this too optimistic? Is this just not realistic enough for us? If this view is the real case scenario, then we have to get off our lazy couch and go to work because we still have a big job to do in this world!! Let us discovered the true meaning of that old first century short prayer Maranatha!! Our Lord cometh!! Even so, come Lord Jesus!!
When the bible talks about the return of Christ it uses the words apokalupsis, epiphaneia and parausia. These three words capture the paradoxical insight of the “already/not yet” tension within the Kingdom of God.
Perhaps a better way to understand the coming of Christ is to grasp the power, significance and influence of the fact that the King and His Kingdom has already come in all His fullness in Christ and as a result of what has already happened thru His work and person, He has not stop coming to all His creation ever since.
He is still showing His glory in revelation-- apokalupsis. He is still manifesting Himself to the worshipper--epiphania and His royal procession keeps arriving thru out all of His territory within creation in great visitation and demonstration of His presence and power--parausia. There will be one last final push in all of this birthing process that will like none other in the resurrection of the dead, the transformation of the cosmos, and the destruction of evil.
But perhaps we have focused so much in this final moment that we have isolated and narrowed Christ’s coming into one single event, disconnected from all that He has already done and is still trying to do throughout all the earth through us.
What if this last final scatological birthing push is in reality the accumulation of all previous divine interventions, reaching a climax thru our Kingdom participation in the fulfillment of our responsibility and vocation in the great commission? Is this too optimistic? Is this just not realistic enough for us? If this view is the real case scenario, then we have to get off our lazy couch and go to work because we still have a big job to do in this world!! Let us discovered the true meaning of that old first century short prayer Maranatha!! Our Lord cometh!! Even so, come Lord Jesus!!
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