Friday, November 21, 2003
Dressed to Kill for Power, Unity, God, & Pastor Larry
Although the popular (& patriarchal) Agape Family Worship Center, a mega-church here in Rahway, does not appeal to me theologically, this announcement was particularly unsettling:
Sunday, November 23
Calling All Men! Join Pastor Larry in a show of power and unity. Please wear fatigues to the 9am and 11am services. (Ladies, this is just for the brothers…please wear your Sunday best).
Apparently, it's a tie-in with the church's special men's conference, "Winning the Battle for the Mind." Can't the point be made without literally being dressed-to-kill? Something about it that preaches not to the heart or rational mind, but to the testosterone (or as we say here in Jersey, the guyoonies). Also note that the brothers are brothers but the sisters are ladies.
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Hi Bob,
Please don't try to read some additional meaning into a simple request by Pastor Larry. To add, we are in a war and we need to be ready. When the state of Massachusetts can now allow gays to marry, when more marriages end in death or divorce rather than happy ending and when kids having kids...what do you think we should do.
The bible says that satan comes to steal, kill and utterly destroy. Yes....we will be dressed to kill...the devil and his imps that he has sent out to destroy us. Face it, you are either for God or against him. And if you are against Him, you are on the side of satan.
By the way, maybe that could be the title of our next men's conference...Dressed to Kill ( Ephesians 6:11,13)
Jonathan M. Leath
Executive Administrator
Agape Family Worship Center
"If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be." Thomas Jefferson
Calling All Men! Join Pastor Larry in a show of power and unity. Please wear fatigues to the 9am and 11am services. (Ladies, this is just for the brothers…please wear your Sunday best).
Apparently, it's a tie-in with the church's special men's conference, "Winning the Battle for the Mind." Can't the point be made without literally being dressed-to-kill? Something about it that preaches not to the heart or rational mind, but to the testosterone (or as we say here in Jersey, the guyoonies). Also note that the brothers are brothers but the sisters are ladies.
Hi Bob,
Please don't try to read some additional meaning into a simple request by Pastor Larry. To add, we are in a war and we need to be ready. When the state of Massachusetts can now allow gays to marry, when more marriages end in death or divorce rather than happy ending and when kids having kids...what do you think we should do.
The bible says that satan comes to steal, kill and utterly destroy. Yes....we will be dressed to kill...the devil and his imps that he has sent out to destroy us. Face it, you are either for God or against him. And if you are against Him, you are on the side of satan.
By the way, maybe that could be the title of our next men's conference...Dressed to Kill ( Ephesians 6:11,13)
Jonathan M. Leath
Executive Administrator
Agape Family Worship Center
