Christian Publishing — I Say Garbage
August 21, 2007
While researching trends in todays ‘Christian Culture’ I found this.
While at http://www.catalystspace.com/, I found a link to a new magazine. The magazine is called RISEN Magazine and they say this of what their goal is:
The Art and Soul of Pop Culture
RISEN Magazine talks straight up with the people who shape culture in the worlds of action sports, fashion, film and music.
We talk about life, death, truth, deception, fear, courage, God and the afterlife with some of the most interesting minds on the planet.
RISEN is committed to exploring culture through the prism of faith, transformation, and truth.
As I see it, this magazine presents no real value to the Christian.
Here are several big names that are or have been a part of Catalyst. Consider what this may mean !
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Andy Stanley |
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Craig Groeschel |
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John C. Maxwell |
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Erwin McManus |
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Shane Claiborne |
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Rick Warren |
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Francis Chan |
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Mark Batterson |
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Voddie Baucham |
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Leonard Sweet |
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Donald Miller |
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August 22nd, 2007 at 11:05 am
Ah yes, Groeschel the darling of the Evangelical Covenant (his denomination).
And Rick Warren, the other darling of the Covenant. Oh that’s right, they like Donald Miller, Leonard Sweet, and Erwin McManus too.
August 22nd, 2007 at 1:39 pm
I’ve met Craig Groeschel of LifeChurch.tv, in fact, the church ‘campuses’ are right down the street from my house. I can honestly say that after years of investigating them, they’re as purpose driven and emergent leaning as you can get. It’s depressing to always see lifechurch and Groeschel on these lists. “woe to you when all men speak well of you, for that is how they treated the false prophets” They’re only getting more and more ‘relevant’ (read: worse/more worldly) as time goes along too. It’s a very sad transformation to see. All about numbers of ‘hands raised’ and ‘baptisms’ though they’ll always precede number statements with “we’re not about numbers” (then why do they ALWAYS bring them up? Saying you’re not about numbers before you talk about numbers doesn’t make it ok). Always about deeds and never hard hitting sheep edifying doctrine. All about how Jesus can help YOUR life, so YOUR dreams come true. The sheep starve while they preach psuedo gospel evangelism messages, and ignore the purpose of church which is to have all the BELIEVERS together (no unbelievers allowed please!!!) and for their edification, not the worlds. Let’s invite poison PURPOSEFULLY in to our bodies! Makes no sense. Dreadful stuff. As for that magazine, how more worldly do you need to be? That last sentence sounds pretty new-age relevant. And on one of their magazine’s they have Paul Mcartny as the cover? Since when is he Christian? Wasn’t he in that band…where they sang songs…about hari krishna being their “sweet Lord”? Isn’t that the ’serpent god’ from hinduism? Hmmm. Really edifying. I bet they have some good advice in there about doing your nails with little crosses on them to ‘evangelize’, or how because Mr.Paul Mcartny says he “has faith” in whatever, he must have some good useful information to add to the ‘conversation’ of ‘faiths’. Nice. Barf.
Joe