August 30 2017 – Click here to listen
So yesterday I along with many others exposed Joel Osteen’s awful response to Hurricane Harvey victims who so badly needed help. Later that day the church finally opened the facility to survivors and began their sophisticated crisis and damage control campaign. And now he is on television grinning his grin and portraying himself as taking the lead on the recovery effort and muttering “We just need to bless each other.” – Ugh! – Gag a maggot.
I’m glad he now sees the light; however, I believe all who criticized him at the time were entirely justified in so doing. The gist of their claim initially was that no one could get to them and there was a “huge” convention center right down the street that was better equipped to handle victims and they should go there.
Hmmm . . . If no one could get to his facility how could they get to one right down the street?
According to reports the catastrophic scene and flooding in Houston forced over 200,000 people from their homes and 10,000 survivors streamed into and filled the convention center to TWICE its capacity. The center has a capacity of 5,000.
I feel it was a lame thing for any Christian or church to do and said so. As expected a reader wrote to lecture me about it. She said in part:
“When we see a brother sin, we are to PRAY for him and not to TALK ABOUT him. The Body of Christ is killing one another with their words. The Bible tells us to COVER the sins of others and not to tell everyone about them . . . ” She went on to amplify her point, but this was her main argument.
I have studied the Bible for nearly 50 years now, and it is interesting when people cherry pick parts of it to justify what they believe, or have been taught throughout their lives. In fact, the strongest language ever used by Jesus was aimed at the Pharisees, who happened to be the most religious leaders on the face of the earth at the time. Check out Matthew 33 – You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell? Matthew 23 – Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter . . . On another occasion, He actually took a whip and drove the money changers and others who were making money off the church by selling sacrificial doves etc. from the temple.
Jesus did not COVER their sins, He EXPOSED them. We aren’t supposed to TALK ABOUT IT? Just yesterday I read about one of the highest-ranking officials in the Catholic Church who stated that he would “rather go to prison” than report pedophilia to police. Australia’s most powerful clergy, Archbishop of Melbourne Denis Hart, said he’s prepared to be jailed for failing to report child sex abuse by pedophile priests. He went on to insist that sexual abuse was “a spiritual encounter with God through the priest” and was “of a higher order” than criminal law. Read more at:
Archbishop Denis Hart says he’d rather go to prison than report pedophilia to police
© Neon Nettle.
So, are we to COVER this up and just PRAY about it because he is a religious leader? Ignore it and it will go away? Those people who call for tolerance and quote “judge not” out of context are not using sound thinking. Claiming grace and forgiveness doesn’t mean you can be a jerk or a criminal.
It is God’s Word that makes the judgment on morality and truth, not our own opinions or theories. Thus, we should go to the Bible and read it in context and make determinations that guide our actions.
This archbishop who thinks he doesn’t have to report pedophiles should indeed be put in prison. If they put him in general population he might just be forced to walk around in pink hot pants getting someone his coffee and maybe then he will see how well he likes being raped multiple times a day by sweaty men. He might altogether have a different view of pedophiles and their innocent little child victims after that.
Unsubscribe if you like, but I’ll keep right on exposing this type of thing. And as I said yesterday, God help me for some of my thoughts and my bad temper, that is most definitely not helping the image of Christians either. I struggle with my temper, but I don’t apologize in the least about exposing Joel Osteen or Archbishop Hart.
Ephesians 5:11
“Do not participate in the unfruitful deeds of darkness, but instead even expose them”