Posted: 01/10/07

"One Punk Under God" For a "Revolution"

Jay Bakker, son of Jim Bakker, is the pastor of a church in NYC: http://www.revolutionnyc.com/. Apparently, the "revolution" is emerging all over CNN and the media:

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Titles of books offered on their site (in the Brian McLaren "styled" collection) include: Velvet Elvis: Repainting the Christian Faith, The Secret Message of Jesus, and Misquoting Jesus: The Story Behind Who Changed the Bible.   

And as for the emerging revolution in America, it is certainly not the same "nation under God" we used to know.

Concerning homosexuality, the "punks under God" assure us that "no single NT [New Testament] author considers the issue important enough to write his own sentence about it!" http://board.revolutionchurch.com/viewtopic.php?t=707&sid=dce74d4e022dc52e1a09d5edcbc71bae

"Churchgoers" wear apparel to further their "testimony" throughout the week with t-shirts such as: "Men's Religion Kills Skeleton Shirt printed on Black Apparel".

Like typical emerging revolutionaries, they garnish their beliefs with words of wisdom from Henry Nouwen on this site. But, would this quote from Nouwen concern them?

"Today I personally believe that while Jesus came to open the door to God's house, all human beings can walk through that door, whether they know about Jesus or not. Today I see it as my call to help every person claim his or her own way to God." (Sabbatical Journey, Henry Nouwen).

If it weren't for such a revolution of universalism the lost punks could be at some rock concert outside of church. Now, they get to come to church for all of the punk pleasures of "Christianity"!

I don't mean to be a punk about it.

Please consider this quote from A.W. Tozer:

"Christ is courted with a familiarity that reveals a total ignorance of Who He is. It is not the reverent intimacy of the adoring saint, but the impotent familiarity of the carnal lover." [Source: "The Erotic vs. the Spiritual" in Born After Midnight, 37-38. It was originally published in 1959 then reprinted in 1989 by Christian Publications in Camp Hill, PA; also see Why I Left the Contemporary Christian Music Movement, Dan Lucarini, Evangelical Press.]

We are told to "put on the new man which was created according to God in true righteousness and holiness" (Ephesians 4:17-24). As Christians, the character of our God is pure, so we are never saved to live the life of "punks", engaging in practices such as homosexuality! (Romans 1; 1 Corinthians 6: 9-11). His seed abides in us (1 John 3:9), and we are made pure in Jesus to renounce the hidden things of the punk world with an appetite for LIGHT and not darkness, hymns which glorify Jesus in worship and not the flesh, clean dress and clean living instead of dressing akin to Satanists in black with themes of death. (1 John 1:7; 2 Thessalonians 3:6-7; 2 Corinthians 4:2).

"Do not quench the Spirit." (1 Thessalonians 5:19)

"For you were formerly darkness, but now you are light in the Lord; walk as children of light." (Ephesians 5:8)

Now, that would really be a "new kind of Christian" for a punk!

Dwayna Litz

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