Extreme Theology

Hey “Pastor” Warren Have You Seen This?

Rick Warren, could you please explain to us how getting Christians and Muslims to work on your Global PEACE Plan will convince Islam to not conquer the World and impose Sharia on the entire World?

Here is a video of an Islamic leader in the UK explaining their objective for the UK and the world. What is their "clear objective"? Answer: DOMINATION of ISLAM.

Note this video is NOT a "Christian Mischaracterization of Islam" this is a Muslim teacher in the UK explaining the clear objective of Islam and the four ways that they could achieve that objective.

Here's a "Bonus" video of another Islamist. See if you can "feel the love" coming from this follower of the "Religion of Peace" then ask yourself, if this is the man you'd like to work side by side with while "conquering the global giant of spiritual emptiness".

Rick Warren's "Yalta" Will Also Fail Miserably

Rick Warren’s call for Christians and Muslims to “work together for the common good” and to inviting Muslims to work with Christians on Rick Warren’s “Global PEACE Plan” will produce the same miserable and failed results as working with the Soviet’s during World War II.

Back in the 1940’s the “global giant” that the world faced was Nazi Germany and the United States, Great Britain and the Soviet Union laid aside their differences for a few short years in order to work for the “common good” by defeating Hitler and Nazi Germany. But the Soviet Union, after the fall of Germany worked quickly to enslave half of Germany and all of Eastern Europe under their oppressive Communist system. The goal of “liberating Europe” was far from achieved as many nations that had been conquered by Hitler were then oppressively enslaved by the Soviet Army after the fall of Berlin.

But anyone who truly understood Soviet Communism could have easily predicted that outcome. Why? Because Global Domination was at the heart of Soviet Communism. Their clearly stated goal was to take over the world.

Rick Warren’s naive call for Christians and Muslims to “work together for the common good” is as equally doomed to failure as working with the Soviets to liberate Europe. Why? Because Islam is a hostile enemy to the Gospel and to the freedom to proclaim the Gospel in an open marketplace of religious ideas. In every Muslim nation Christians are persecuted and converts to Christianity have their very lives threatened and in many cases snuffed out. Islam is NOT concerned about achieving the “common good” for both Christians and Muslims. Islam’s goal is defeating Infidels and instituting Global Sharia. Muslims don’t want to coexist they want the unconditional surrender and submission of their "Infidel Enemies" and there are many global Islamist groups working toward that end.

Islam is an enemy of Christ and the True Gospel. It cannot be bargained with and it is merciless and ruthless in its attacks against Christianity, Judaism and Western freedom and democracy. Islam is NOT a religion of Peace it is a religion of Jihad and submission at the end of sword and Rick Warren’s call for Muslims and Christians to work together on his Global Peace Plan will accomplish nothing in removing the sword from the heart and center of Islam.

Christians are to boldly preach and proclaim repentance and the forgiveness of sins in Jesus' Name to Muslims, rather than trying to find common ground with them in order to ‘work for the common good’. To abandon this Christian duty given by Jesus Christ to proclaim repentance and the forgiveness of sins in Jesus name and replace it with working for the common good is both naive regarding the true nature of Islam and rebellious to Christ’s explicit instructions given to the Church in Luke 24 and Matt 28.

Rick Warren’s shallow ideas will not only fail (they already have) they will take their place in the trash can of human history as just another man-made attempt at bringing peace that failed and failed big. Twenty years from now, no one will be talking about Rick Warren’s Global PEACE Plan and no one will be discussing the lasting Peace between Christians and Muslims that was fostered by Rick Warren’s coalition.

Rick Warren's Christian/Muslim Coalition is NOT Working

Here's news that will be not be shocking to anyone unless they have the naiveté of a sponge and unquestioningly believe Rick Warren has actually discovered the secret to fostering peace between Christians and Muslims...Warren's call for Muslims & Christians to work together for the common good ain't working... at all...not even close...Christians are being persecuted just as much and maybe even more intensely by Muslims.

The Christian Post is reporting that, "7 Iraqi Churches Bombed Within 48 Hours" and the report states, ''We were expecting this, and we expect it to get worse.... Their goal is to drive the Christians out of Iraq,'' said Abdullah Nufaili, who heads the Christian Endowment. (Online Source)

So much for working with the Muslims to fulfill Rick Warren's "Global PEACE Plan". It appears that Warren's Christian / Muslim coalition is just as effective as Chamberlin's efforts at making peace with Hitler and the Nazis.

Apostles of Satan

The apostles of Satan are not abortionists and sex traffickers, but are for the most part ordained ministers. Thousands of those who occupy our post-modern pulpits are no longer engaged in presenting the fundamentals of the Christian Faith, but have turned aside from the Truth and have given heed unto fables. Instead of magnifying the enormity of sin and setting forth its eternal consequences, they minimize it by declaring that sin is merely ignorance or the absence of good. Instead of warning their hearers to “flee from the wrath to come” they make God a liar by declaring that He is too loving and merciful to send any of His own creatures to eternal torment. Instead of declaring that “without shedding of blood is no remission,” they merely hold up Christ as the great Exemplar and exhort their hearers to “follow in His steps.” Of them it must be said, “For they being ignorant of God’s righteousness and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God” ( Romans 10:3).

Their message may sound very plausible and their aim appear very praiseworthy, yet we read of them— “for such are false apostles, deceitful workers, transforming themselves (imitating) into the apostles of Christ. And no marvel; for Satan himself is transformed into an angel of light. Therefore, it is no great thing [not to be wondered at] if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness, whose end shall be according to their works” ( 2 Corinthians 11:13-15).

In addition to the fact that today hundreds of churches are without a leader who faithfully declares the whole counsel of God and presents His way of salvation, we also have to face the additional fact that the majority of people in these churches are very unlikely to learn the Truth themselves.

—A. W. Pink (1886–1952)

Taken & updated (my updates are in italics) from "Another Gospel" by A. W. Pink

Some Good Thoughts on Preaching

Compare and Contrast what John Piper is saying here in this video to Rick Warren's ideas regarding "Purpose Driven Preaching".

Purpose Driven Community Gathering - Day Two

Rick Warren Purpose Driven Critique - Is Repentance the Central Message of the New Testament?

Rick Warren Purpose Driven Critique - Does PD Preaching Have Any Good News to Offer Me?

The Relevance of Star Trek By The Numbers ***Updated***

This is the opening weekend for the new hit block buster movie, Star Trek. The reviews all say that this is a MUST see movie. The internet, radio, newspapers and television are all talking about Star Trek. Its the most relevant movie of the moment.

Because Star Trek is sooooo popular and soooo cutting edge and sooooo relevant there are already a herd of Seeker-Driven pastors stampeding to movie theaters in order to watch the movie and find a Biblical hook so that they can send out a marketing piece letting everyone in their neighborhood know that they are preaching a sermon based on Star Trek.

The assumption is that Star Trek is relevant and by preaching a sermon on Star Trek they will be able to reach out to unchurched people and meet them ‘where they are’.

But, there is one big flaw in this way of thinking.

Star Trek isn’t as relevant as you might think and I’ll prove it.

Let’s assume that Star Trek breaks all of the box office records this weekend and it eclipses The Dark Night, which hauled in $158,411,483 during its opening weekend last year.

For the sake of this exercise we’ll project an opening weekend haul of $165 million for Star Trek. That number would shatter the record and would be an amazing feat considering the fact that its opening weekend was NOT on a holiday weekend.

Now it is times for number crunching.

The average cost for a movie ticket in the United States is $7.18. With this information in hand we can determine how many people will go to the theaters to watch the most relevant movie of the moment. That number is 23 million people. This may sound like a huge number but keep in mind that there are over 300 million people living in the United States. This means that only 7.6% of the United States population think that Star Trek is soooo relevant that they had to see it on opening weekend. And we all know that box office receipts severely drop off after the opening weekend.

Now let’s come back to the pastors that mistakenly think that they are being relevant by preaching a sermon based on Star Trek.

I’ve seen the pattern repeated thousands of times in Seeker-Driven churches across America. A relevant seeker-driven pastor creates a marketing mailer that they send to all the unchurched people in their community announcing their cutting edge and relevant sermon topic or series. In this case, there will be a herd of relevant pastors spending hundreds of thousands of dollars announcing their Star Trek sermon under the false assumption that Star Trek is a relevant topic.

But in reality Star Trek is really only a relevant topic for roughly 8% to 10% of the U.S. population.

In other words, Star Trek is an irrelevant sermon topic for more than 90% of the U.S. population. When you consider the fact that planet Earth has a population over 6 Billion people then you begin to see just how grossly irrelevant a Star Trek sermon really is.

My question is why would any Christian pastors exchange the gospel message that we’ve been given, a message that applies to and addresses the #1 problem that impacts 100% of the world’s population for a message that at best is relevant to only 10% of the U.S. population?

100% of the World’s Population is born sinful by nature and hostile to the One True God and in need of a Savior.

Christ Died for the Sins of the World and whosever believes in Him will not perish when Christ returns in glory to judge both the living and the dead but have everlasting life.

In other words, Jesus Christ has left the Christian Church with a message that applies to and is relevant to every single person on the planet regardless of whether they like Star Trek or not.

Why would would Christians exchange a message that has Universal application and relevance for a message that doesn’t even come close to universal relevance?

Christian Pastors need to Preach the Gospel that we’ve been given and leave Star Trek at the theaters.

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Update May 14th - Bad news for the relevance seekers...Star Trek's opening box office receipts ONLY totaled, $76.5 million. That means that only 10.6 million Americans (3.5%) of the U.S. Population really think that Star Trek is relevant.

Pastors Who Sell-Out Jesus

Preaching sappy feel good Biblically watered down sermons isn’t an example of bravery, innovation, leadership or "out of the box thinking"!

Instead, it’s sad, pathetic, cowardly Judas-like behavior.

Judas betrayed Jesus for 30 pieces of silver. Sell Out Pastors betray Jesus for the fame and adulation that comes with attracting large crowds of people.

2 Timothy 4:1   I charge you in the presence of God and of Christ Jesus, who is to judge the living and the dead, and by his appearing and his kingdom: 2 preach the word; be ready in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with complete patience and teaching. 3 For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own passions, 4 and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander off into myths.

If I was Dying & I Walked Into Your Church

Poignant.

Preaching Christ

This interview with the Rev. Ken Jones on the Issues, Etc. radio program is a must listen. It exposes the errors of Purpose-Driven / Seeker-Sensitive preaching and shows that Christ is to preached from every page of scripture.

Pastor Matt Chandler on Irreverent, Silly Myths

In 4 minutes 16 seconds Pastor Matt Chandler exposes the core problem behind so much of Purpose-Driven / Seeker-Driven preaching.