Grammatical questions

Today's topic is how grammatical weirdness in the evangelical world shows a lot about the state of its spiritual health.

For instance, If I hear "God" used as an adjective one more time, I am going to scream. "It's a 'God' thing." "That's just so 'God.'" "We had a big 'God' night." These are a few of the types of quotes you hear and read if you're out and about the evangelical media at all. I often hear or read this type of quote from so-called youth pastors, who ought to know better than to so cavalierly refer to the holy and righteous Creator and Sustainer of the universe.

My other complaint: Using the word 'worship' with no direct object. This is very prevalent in the so-called 'worship' movement of CCM. I constantly see references to "worship" without mention of WHO is being worshiped! "We just want to come together and worship." Where is the rest of the sentence? WHOM are you worshiping, folks?

Forget that line about putting Christ back in Christmas. It's getting so we need to put Christ back into our Christianity! Or, more accurately, we need to get on our faces before our Lord Jesus Christ himself and ask him to have mercy on his backslidden, cold and hardhearted church.

Praying for grace,
mlj

The church needs to wake up

This isn't really a good title for a short blog. But it is what it is, and it's true.
Consider our current, potentially explosive world situation. Nero fiddles while Rome burns. At the very moment when the church should be the MOST clear about the gospel, the MOST committed to the truth of God's Word and the MOST serious about God's holiness and man's sinfulness, and at the moment when our pastors and leaders should be the MOST direct and passionate about proclaiming Jesus Christ to the world ... well, the American church is not even asleep in the light, as Keith Green once sang. It's not well-fed OR dead. It's alive (by all worldly appearances) and blaspheming its Lord at a rate probably unparalleled in church history.
The Slice of Laodicea recently posted this horrific link. Click on it for a small example of what I mean. http://www.crossrevconnect.com/
Lord, have mercy on your church.

Praying for grace,
mlj