Church Voices

Well, the incredibly misguided, wrong, and profoundly un-Christlike folks at Christian Research Network (formerly Slice of Laodicea) are at it again.

Check it out:

In an odd turn of events, or perhaps with something to promote, Mike Jones - the man former president of the National Association of Evangelicals Ted Haggard allegedly committed adultery with - paid a visit to New Life Church where Haggard was once senior pastor. In this report filed by the Associated Press we see that ”Jones, who has a forthcoming book, told The Denver Post that several people shook his hand during the visit Sunday and told him, ‘God bless you.’” It wouldn’t appear that the Gospel, if it was even preached, had any effect on Jones. The wise person might wonder just how much blood will be on the hands of so many megachurch pastors.

This seems like a total non-sequitur to me. How is greeting warmly the guy who exposed the sin of your former pastor anti-gospel? If anything it seems very gospel to me. You know, loving those who want to do harm to you and all that.

If you told me the man responsible for bringing down the leader of a large group was going to visit the large group I’d expect resentment, and controversy to be the result. Instead we saw just the opposite. And all this without armed guards.

Shocking.

Does it strike anyone as odd that there doesn’t seem to be much in the way of Christ or research at Christian Research Network?