Apparently digging wells is more important than preaching the saving gospel of Jesus Christ.
Now I know, y’all are gonna come here and give me grief; about how you have to “dig the well and build that bridge and create the relationship before you can preach the gospel.” I can’t find one instance of Jesus or any of the disciples and apostles building wells, planting crops, or educating people before preaching the gospel. They just went right in and preached.
You see you can build a well, but you can’t make the people drink.
Louie Giglio came onto the scene a while back as a Baptist. He alluded to the fact that being a Baptist you could trust him as someone who would never deceive anyone let alone the youth!
Well everyone thought that about John Piper too and look who he hangs around with now – Mark ‘Let’s Meditate’ Driscoll. Mark recently appeared along side Rick Warren at some convention or another. And guess who mentors Louie Giglio, well John Piper of course.
Regarding the Passion Conference: “The conference challenged students to worship the Lord with their lives and to impact the lives of others who are hurting all over the world.”
“Worship the Lord with their lives”? Ah they mean go out and do good works. And “impact the lives of others hurting all over the world”, by doing good works.
See CBN news report below:
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Passion Conference Raises over $1 Million
Friday, January 08, 2010 By Tracy Winborn - CBN News ProducerThousands of college students from around the world converged in Atlanta this week at the Passion Conference 2010.
More than 20,000 students from 37 countries packed the Georgia World Congress Center in downtown Atlanta for the four-day gathering.
The conference challenged students to worship the Lord with their lives and to impact the lives of others who are hurting all over the world.
Students answered that call by raising $1.3 million in global aid.
“Crazy. Thank you so much,” Passion Conference founder/director Louie Giglio told the students. “What a beautiful day, what a beautiful time. “We love you guys, we believe in you, and we believe even more in God. Let’s go live it out on our campuses.”
The money will be directed to sponsor children, an education center for Dalit people in India, to rescue women from the sex trade in Nepal, and to build wells, among other things.
Some of the ministries affected by the Passion outreach include World Vision, Hope International, and Compassion International.
Source: http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/us/2010/January/Passion-Conference-Raises-over-1-Million/
Deborah, this is something I am currently working on…
How people use the Name of Jesus or the fact that you call yourself a Cristian, to get money out of you or to gain some “power” advantage.
The Gospel them becomes “need driven” and not “conviction of sin” any more…
This is used extensively in churches and welfare organizations but also politically !
Example, here in SA we have political parties masquerading as Christian political parties and they use “Jesus” as a tool to get your vote…
Yet in so doing they connect themselves to a political system that gets “ruled” by the will of the people… (Democracy = The will of people)
I personally don’t believe that we should vote.
I was asked by two “Christian” political parties to stand for them in my constituency. I explained my beliefs, refused their offer (it included a nice financial bonus) and heard that the organizer’s assistant who was present when they spoke to me, resigned the next day ! Praise God!
Me and my family, we serve the Lord !
Jean,
When you are finished send it my way and I shall post it. :)