What are you preaching?

Galations 1:1-10

1Paul, an apostle (not sent from men nor through the agency of man, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised Him from the dead),
2and all the brethren who are with me, To the churches of Galatia:
3Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,
4who gave Himself for our sins so that He might rescue us from this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father,
5to whom be the glory forevermore. Amen.
6I am amazed that you are so quickly deserting Him who called you by the grace of Christ, for a different gospel;
7which is really not another; only there are some who are disturbing you and want to distort the gospel of Christ.
8But even if we, or an angel from heaven, should preach to you a gospel contrary to what we have preached to you, he is to be accursed!
9As we have said before, so I say again now, if any man is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you received, he is to be accursed!
10For am I now seeking the favor of men, or of God? Or am I striving to please men? If I were still trying to please men, I would not be a bond-servant of Christ.

Please I beg you to read this with caution. Many of you who will read this and say "Amen" are the very ones distorting the Gospel. I love you all.

The New Covenant

Jeremiah 31:31-34

31"Behold, days are coming," declares the LORD, "when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah,
32not like the covenant which I made with their fathers in the day I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt, My covenant which they broke, although I was a husband to them," declares the LORD.
33"But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel after those days," declares the LORD, "I will put My law within them and on their heart I will write it; and I will be their God, and they shall be My people.
34"They will not teach again, each man his neighbor and each man his brother, saying, 'Know the LORD,' for they will all know Me, from the least of them to the greatest of them," declares the LORD, "for I will forgive their iniquity, and their sin I will remember no more."

Furtick and Osteen

So on June 4th a pastor named Steven Furtick wrote a post that was titled "Please stop pickin on Joel" in which he pretty much told everyone to stop talking negatively about Joel and his preaching. Then I saw leaders agreeing with him and posting a link to it on their stuff. I have a few problems with what Mr. Furtick said. (Keep in mind while you are reading this that i often read and enjoy his blog but i hated this one.)

1. He called Lakewood a church which it is obviously not. It is a place for a bunch of lost people to get together and feel good about their lives.

2. While i fully agree that we should not be mean-spirited and that we should do a lot more walking than we do talking. We should publicly expose Joel for being a false teacher, which is what he is.

3. Pastor Furtick said that he was impacting Houston. Which is true except he forgot to mention that the impact he has is that he is an instrument of deception.

4. Who gives a crap that this man preaches to 40,000 people weekly if they are only there to feel really good about themselves. Oh and Steven, the reason why i could not get 40,000 people to come hear me weekly is because the Jesus I preach (which is the One from the Bible) is an offense to unconverted sinners.

Again I agree that everything we say and do should be out of love, and that we should be doing before we begin talking, but that is all most of us are doing.

We should expose Joel Osteen for what he is because people need to know.

Be doers of the Word.

J.R. Lee

Well what to say? Just kidding.

I want to say thank you to J.R. for a few reasons.
1. I have learned a lot from you.
2. I get better at sports when i play them with you
3. you have given me more stuff than anyone else (except my parents, but thats a given)

Anyways man. I hope God blesses you. This sounds like a goodbye but its not.

I just read this post and it is the weirdest one i have ever written.

J.R. I love you man. Later

Women

I have been appalled on several occassions at some women that attend my church ( not all of them, but a few) and now more than ever (I think) see why God created the order of leadership in the manner that He did.

On one occassion i was at a horribly unbiblical meeting that was called at my church by some lay people that do not study their Bible very much from what i gathered. Every time a man would begin to say something, some woman would interrupt so that she could hear herself talk for like 15 minutes. This happened over and over again. I must also say that some fault does fall on the men for two reasons.
1. The men were doing something, by having the meeting, that was HORRIBLE!!!!!!!!!
2. The men were acting like cowards and would not take the floor after being interrupted.

Last night there were at least two (very loud) women that were acting in a terrible manner as well. I cannot go into detail because everyone who attends my church would know exactly who i was talking about.

Read these verses in 1 Cor.
34The women are to keep silent in the churches; for they are not permitted to speak, but are to subject themselves, just as the Law also says.
35If they desire to learn anything, let them ask their own husbands at home; for it is improper for a woman to speak in church.

For the women reading this blog. If you are acting like a woman should then may God bless you to continue being like Christ.
If you are not then please take Scripture to heart and if you have questions ask your husband. Do not waste everybody elses time.

For the men. STOP ACTING LIKE COWARDS. Be a man!!!!!!!

Also, for the men. Biblical leadership in the household means that you are to lead on behalf of your wife and not as a tyrant. In not being a coward please still act as Christ does toward His beautiful bride.