Ted haggard
I was browsing through yahoo when I saw the hitting news of Ted Haggard, the superstar pastor of New life Church, (a 14000 mega church in America), committing gay sexual immorality Read Article
Hence I feel the obligation to post something up to clarify my viewpoint of the whole issue. Please read the article I have link above before reading on.
I have very simple to say to my fellow christian friends and those who care. I believe every man living on this fallen earth, regardless of who and what you are and your title resembles, you do not run from the severity temptation of the flesh. Therefore I am not too surprise nor shocked by news like these. I believe this is not the first time scandal leaked out in the church history. It was some long time ago when a couple of evangelist did the most similar thing, and reporters chased after Billy Graham towards the airport of LA to ask of him, how on earth can such things happen? Billy Graham turn to the reporters and asked in return "how many planes has landed safely today?". The reporter confusedly replied, there were a couple of thousand flights because LA is a big city. " Billy then asked "how many flights met an accident today?" The reporter said none. Billy continued and shouted "why don't you report that thousands of flights have landed safely today! It is a good news!" Reporter replied and said "It's not news worthy to report that..." Billy spoke and told him "that's right, millions of evangelist out there are doing God's work and bearing fruit for the Kingdom, why don't you report about their great works, instead you chased for me the whole day to question one single mistake from which an evangelist couple committed....."
King David in the bible committed adultery and indirectly sent to death the husband of the woman from whom he viewed her nude bath like pornography and have sex with later. After all that he is called "the man after God's own heart"? Men are dusty cheap and worthless, yet one sin will never bring God down from His throne and reverse the sacrifice Jesus has made on the cross as atonement for you sinners. So this is my stand on the scandal of Ted Haggard. If there's something different with Christianity, it is that we believe in a God that loves us, a God that calls Himself our Father, a God with such sacrificial love that gave Himself up for us and demand nothing in return but us to believe in Him that we may not burn in hell and He at the same time can bless us even more.
In this, other religions have no similarity.
Ted Haggard's statement to his church on Nov 5
More news about Ted Haggard
Hence I feel the obligation to post something up to clarify my viewpoint of the whole issue. Please read the article I have link above before reading on.
I have very simple to say to my fellow christian friends and those who care. I believe every man living on this fallen earth, regardless of who and what you are and your title resembles, you do not run from the severity temptation of the flesh. Therefore I am not too surprise nor shocked by news like these. I believe this is not the first time scandal leaked out in the church history. It was some long time ago when a couple of evangelist did the most similar thing, and reporters chased after Billy Graham towards the airport of LA to ask of him, how on earth can such things happen? Billy Graham turn to the reporters and asked in return "how many planes has landed safely today?". The reporter confusedly replied, there were a couple of thousand flights because LA is a big city. " Billy then asked "how many flights met an accident today?" The reporter said none. Billy continued and shouted "why don't you report that thousands of flights have landed safely today! It is a good news!" Reporter replied and said "It's not news worthy to report that..." Billy spoke and told him "that's right, millions of evangelist out there are doing God's work and bearing fruit for the Kingdom, why don't you report about their great works, instead you chased for me the whole day to question one single mistake from which an evangelist couple committed....."
King David in the bible committed adultery and indirectly sent to death the husband of the woman from whom he viewed her nude bath like pornography and have sex with later. After all that he is called "the man after God's own heart"? Men are dusty cheap and worthless, yet one sin will never bring God down from His throne and reverse the sacrifice Jesus has made on the cross as atonement for you sinners. So this is my stand on the scandal of Ted Haggard. If there's something different with Christianity, it is that we believe in a God that loves us, a God that calls Himself our Father, a God with such sacrificial love that gave Himself up for us and demand nothing in return but us to believe in Him that we may not burn in hell and He at the same time can bless us even more.
In this, other religions have no similarity.
Ted Haggard's statement to his church on Nov 5
More news about Ted Haggard
Labels: Christianity
posted by Andrew Ho @ 12:29 PM
1 Comments:
At 9:10 PM ,
Anonymous said...
well..actually Christianity is different from other religions actually..It's more than juz that God loves us but our carnal self has been crucified which means we no longer live in the flesh.
Galatians 2:20
I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live but Christ that lives in me. The life I live in the body I live by faith in the Son of God who loved me and gave Himself for me.
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