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Re: Matt Maddix
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Originally Posted by CC1
You are completely missing the point. What I said has nothing to do with the example you gave. Jesus being the perfect sacrifice for our sins was something that was necessary for our salvation and logical. MM doing somersaults in the middle of his screaming sermons is not necessary or desired by anybody other than some OP's who seem to revel in those type of antics and attach spirituality to them. I find it a sad situation.
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I wasn't referring to his preaching style when I referenced his "methods." The "culture shock" comes from his "out-of-the-walls-church" and emphasis on no-strings-attached outreach to the community. For a lot of Christians, THAT is shocking--and they need to be shocked out of their comfort zones.
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"God, send me anywhere, only go with me. Lay any burden on me, only sustain me. And sever any tie in my heart except the tie that binds my heart to Yours."
--David Livingstone
"To see no being, not God’s or any, but you also go thither,
To see no possession but you may possess it—enjoying all without labor or purchase—
abstracting the feast, yet not abstracting one particle of it;…."
--Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass, Song of the Open Road
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