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THE ROLE CHRISTIANS PLAY IN THE JERRY SANDUSKY – PENN STATE SEX SCANDAL (SKANDALIZO) [FRIDAY FIRE 89]

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Well, it’s official. The head buffaloes at Penn State covered up the decades of sexual abuse of underage boys. In my work as a consultant to organizations over the last 20+ years the #1 problem is leadership failing to discover and/or act openly and honorably with problems. Sweeping it under the rug never ever works.

The mark of a great organization, including any ecclesia (“church”), is: 1) how fast the worst news travels from the very bottom to the very top, 2) then dealt with in consensus fashion in a rigorous, honorable way with open communication for the best decisions, and finally 3) is implemented with accountability from very top to very bottom.

But…what role do we as Christians play, if any, in the satanic Sandusky saga ?

Why do you suppose they covered it up? The official report states to protect the repudiation of the football program and the school.

But why? [Read more…]

THESE WILL GO AWAY INTO ETERNAL PUNISHMENT [FRIDAY FIRE 86]

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These days we see many leaders writing and speaking about hell…and the lake of fire. There’s a growing list of good men who are saints of God who now proclaim that unbelievers are thrown into the lake of fire but then after some punishment, are annihilated. That is, burned up and extinguished. They quote many passages in the Old and New Testament that use terminology of this type.

So, from my watching their teaching, they seem to mean a temporary punishment, that is, punishment that lasts for a while. In some cases, they seem to mean a short while. In most cases, they never declare how temporary it might be in their opinion.

Few of us can imagine a loving God that would punish, that is, torment human beings forever and ever. But…God is not like us in many ways. We are created in His image we know, but still many of His attributes and their intensity are all together unlike us.

In Matthew 25 in the parable of the sheep and goats, people are separated based on their [Read more…]

AMERICA’S CHURCH CRITIQUED BY AMERICAN MISSIONARY LEADER [DEAR BRETHREN 8]

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This letter was written to me from a dear brother who is a major leader in a good size American church and current cross cultural missionary in Africa. Please read it slowly and carefully, then asking God our Lord how this affects you and your family.

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Dear Marc,

Until you’ve lived outside the U.S. for awhile, you don’t fully realize how upside down everything is.  I caught a glimpse of it on short-term mission trips, but I realize it fully now.

In America, things that are not at all important, are made to seem like they are very important.  This is not just in the worldly culture surrounding the Christian, it is in the Christian culture.  Other things that are very important are made to seem like they are insignificant.

Okay, you are probably wanting examples right now.  Entertainment for example.  Americans are entertained to death by sports and movies and TV and you name it.  It is amazing how much of our society is consumed with entertainment.  Entertainers make the most money of anybody in our culture for a good reason.  We are HUGE entertainment consumers.  That huge endeavor adds very, very little to anyone’s life.  In the final analysis, it has almost NO long-term value even in a temporal society. 

The rest of the world sees America as [Read more…]