Slice of Laodicea

The moral and political apocalypse all around us in America hasn’t dampened the libido of Pastor Ed Young in Grapevine, Texas (suburb of Dallas). The media is busy reporting on how Barack Obama will be overturning the ban on stem cell research and forcing taxpayers to pay for abortions, and how the gays are now marrying in Connecticut and rioting in California, but Ed Young is bringing a bed to church, and he plans to be sitting on it, on “stage”, when he issues his challenge. This is how Christians are making headlines in the secular news while the leftist machine implements spiritual and political change.

Not only is Mr. Young pathetically unoriginal, he is disgusting and adolescent in his sex obsession. If his congregation hasn’t learned about sexuality by now, I’m not sure why they have a childcare center. How did those children actually come into being? Don’t you sometimes reflect on the awe-inspiring fact that Jonathan Edwards, Charles Spurgeon, John Wesley, George Whitfield, and so many countless other pastors didn’t have to drag beds into their churches and have multi-day “sex challenges”? Why is that? Are Christians today more ignorant of sexuality? Do they not recognize certain body parts after decades of porn on TV and sex ed in the schools? Are people fundamentally opposed to sex today and encouragement is needed? What is it, Mr. Young, that drives you to such “teaching” in your church among supposed believers?

These pastors are looking for attention. Anything will do: microphones from local TV news outlets thrust under their noses, a chance for a middle-aged man to strut his stuff sexually in front of his congregation, (hey, we’re doing it, too!), a chance to discuss supposedly risque subject matter in mixed company–all in the name of providing biblical teaching. Hogwash. It’s about ego and pride and the desire for attention, no matter how bad it is. That, friends, is the real reason we see these sex campaigns in our churches. God has given these pastors over to their zipper fixations. It is the blind leading the blind today. They grope around in the dark, talking endlessly about sex, and they don’t even know what fools they appear to the rest of the world. What a tragedy.

P.S. While Mr. Young plans his sex-a-palooza at his church, he is completely unconcerned about his repeated hosting of Word of Faith, Trinity-denying heretic, T.D. Jakes. Doesn’t this say it all? They’re not teaching Christian doctrine in churches—they’re teaching sex, and look at the heresy this has allowed in the door. Here’s an idea, Ed. Have your congregation read the Bible for 7-days straight. The only problem is, they’ll leave your church!