Is “Sin Assisted Evangelism” Culturally Justifiable?
- Posted by: Todd
- Posted on: Wed, March 07, 2007
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It’s an interesting read, if you’re so inclined. Here it is. Actually, Jim is one of the more level-headed MMI detractors, and I can respect that. I do hope he realizes that he uses as much (if not more) spin as I do. And at least one of his commenters go wild with the fake explitives. (check out Pastor Jody’s response).
Just for the record… I’ve never advocated using the F word or putting nearly naked women on the stage. I’ve never even joked about it. And I don’t think that’s the slippery slope that we’re going down (some may disagree and that’s ok). In other words, I don’t think that Mark Driscoll gets up in the morning and thinks of how he can work in three ‘sucks’ and two ‘frickins’ into every message. I think his delivery is his effort to reach his culture and church (which IS much different than the culture at Johnny Macs).
One final thing… I do find it interesting when two different worlds collide. Like the worlds of John Piper (who many at OldTruth really love) and Mark Driscoll (who most there can’t stand). When Piper asks Driscoll to speak at his conference, it’s interesting to read the response about all the people who can’t understand why Piper would ask such a foul-mouthed person like Driscoll to share the stage with him. Then a few weeks later when Piper says at a different conference something to the affect of ‘sometimes God kicks our ass’, those same Piper fans can’t believe why Piper would ask a foul-mouthed person like Driscoll to share the stage with him. 
Read some of the comments on that post and see their consternation.
I think Piper is great, by the way.
It all makes for an interesting discussion… a discussion (that as long as it doesn’t get ugly and personal) is a fun one (albeit a time-wasting one) to have, at least for me.
Jim from OldTruth.com recently took me to task over a recent post at MMI on John MacArthur. Jim writes, "If you are familiar with Todd Rhoades' Monday Morning Insight blog, you probably know already that this popular hang-out for trendy pastors is about as opposite to Old Truth as is imaginable. So it's no surprise that MacArthur's remarks were cause for some Monday Morning chafing. Unfortunately, as we are about to see, the resulting insights from that blog seem to have been based more on dubious 'spin' than on anything else..."
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mlouie on Mon, March 12, 2007
I was hit with a thought: Sin assisted evangelism nullifies the Law of God. I’ve heard the verse “be all things to all men” used to justify sin assisted evangelism.
Why would God allow us to allow ourselves to sin in the name of “being all things to all men”? Using that verse to justify Sin assisted evangelism is saying to God that His Word is hypocritical. Is it clear to anybody else?
For His glory,
mlouie
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