For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear.
-2 Timothy 4:3
So much for going into all the world and Preaching the Gospel.
Maybe Jesus really meant go into all the world and sell sex, materialism, and bad SNL skits (more on that last one in a minute).
Today, on the 3rd of October, 2009, a popular Church known as Oak Leaf Church in Georgia will begin a series that will exchange the truth of the Gospel for a sensationalist self-help lie.
Rather than doing what a Pastor is called to do (Preach the Gospel), Oak Leaf church starting a series know as “Storybook Sex”.
Husband: “Darling, I think I’d like to start going to Church again. Maybe we can check out that Church we’ve heard so much about. What’s the name? Oak Leaf?”
Wife: “Dear, that is wonderful, I’m so glad to hear you want to become the Spiritual Leader of our household again. I’m so happy I could just cry.”
Now imagine how quickly that happiness will be erased from this dear Wife’s face when the first thing she sees upon entering the Church isn’t the Blessed Cross that our Penal Substitutionary Atonement was fulfilled upon, but actually the incredible, all to chiseled legs of some 115-pound Tart with a shopping bag.
Wife: “Dear, did you know what this service was about?”
Husband: “er…”
“They exchanged the truth of God for a lie” -Romans 1:25
This is the bad Saturday Night Live skit that will be played to promote the Service:
WARNING: You may get upset with this one.
wow…that’s one way to get people in the pews!
I am a member of oak leaf church & if you don’t attend the sermons you JUDGE then maybe you shouldn’t talk about them in the negative. Storybook sex was one of my favorites & it’s nothing like you’re portraying it to be. You recently pointed out the parallelism in an episode of fringe.. you’re promoting using science fiction to get people thinking about Jesus but not real life scenarios?