A La Carte (01/17)

  • Tim Challies
  • 01/17/06
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Tuesday January 17, 2006

Theology: John the baptist wants to know whether early church deacons were waiters or bankers (or both).

Worship: Phil Johnson discusses worship and whether or not karaoke qualifies as public worship. He says that “Karaoke is a populist form of burlesque.”

Church: The Church Report lists the 50 most influential Christians in America. What happened to John MacArthur? And since when is Dr. Phil a Christian leader?

Site: Is anyone else noticing how much faster my site is running since the forums went kaput? They were definitely putting quite a strain on the server. However, I have brought them back to life so you can go back to commenting if you like. I am going to try to re-integrate the old comments with the old threads.

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a comment from Jeremy Pierce • 01/17 @ 8:44am
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Dr. Phil does claim to be a Christian, and surely he’s more influential than John MacArthur. It doesn’t list the people who are most influential in being spiritual leaders to the church. It’ lists the most influential Christians.

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a comment from Tom Gee • 01/17 @ 10:48am
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That list is truly depressing. To adapt a quote from a certain reviewer:”One might be forgiven for believing that the gates of hell might prevail after all.”

- T. D. Jakes, a Oneness Pentecostal who denies the personhood of the Trinity.

- George Barna, who never seems to “sail against wind and tide,” but goes wherever the evangelical wind is blowing.

- Benny Hinn, a money-grubbing charlatan who doesn’t blush at astonishing blasphemies.

- Brian McLaren who wants to lead the whole church astray.

- Rick Warren and his Christianity-Lite approach to life.

- Bruce Wilkinson and his Jabez mantra.

Praise God for the faithful witness and powerful teaching of John Piper, John MacArthur, Bruce Ware and those few others who love the centrality and sufficiency of the Word.

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a comment from mikbry24 • 01/17 @ 4:24pm
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Wow……After viewing that list I can only exclaim, “Boy, is the Church in ‘trouble’ right now!” Thankfully we have these words from our Lord,”on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it.”

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a comment from Joel • 01/17 @ 6:22pm
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The head of the single largest denomination - in both America and the world at large - is only at number 44? Where are these people coming from, that think Benny Hinn and Rob Bell have more influence than Papa Ratzi?

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a comment from Chris Anthony • 01/26 @ 12:38pm
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Mr Gee,

Have you ever met any of the people you have criticised? It looks to me like you have just borrowed other people’s opinions from the Internet. Isn’t it better to reserve judgement?