Re: Hooters?
Posted by: barnabas14 <barnabas14@...>
Pete why you want to be so narrow minded about such an innocent issue.
As we find in the Great Book in the Revelation: because thou art
lukewarm, and neither cold nor hot, I will spue thee out of my mouth.
That brings me to a point: God ain't dead. . . . He's just sick. . . . .
.
I am with you wholeheartedly Pete. We need a revival of holiness
preaching and holiness living.
Later,
PH
On Sun, 09 Jun 2002 23:02:00 -0500 Pete and Brenda Campbell
<[email protected]> writes:
> What a Sunday! We have a deacon (!) in our church that blew up,
> slammed down
> his Bible, and stormed out of the Deacon's meeting tonight shouting
> and
> vowing never to come back to the church. Why did all this happen?
> Our
> associate Pastor for Youth took a "Hooters" hat away from his son,
> who wore
> it to church during Vacation Bible School last week-after repeated
> warnings
> that he was going to do it if he didn't take it off. Now mind you,
> this
> whole family goes to Hooters every chance they get. This deacon said
> in the
> deacon's meeting that a hooters hat (or shirt, which he, the
> deacon,
> actually wore to church one night) didn't mean a thing and since we
> had
> never been there, our problem was that our minds were in the
> gutter.
>
> His son (high school sophomore) certainly knows what it means-he had
> a
> Hooters shirt on when the youth group was about to leave for a
> Christian
> concert a few months back and I happened to ask him if he knew what
> it
> meant. He used some graphic language and told me. I then informed
> him that
> he couldn't go to the concert with that shirt on, (our youth Pastor
> was too
> shocked to even speak) and he just shrugged, said "okay" and went
> home. He
> has since told me that since his mom and dad don't have a problem
> with
> Hooters, (I find her acceptance of her son and husband wearing these
> items
> even more incredible), we shouldn't have a problem with him wearing
> it
> either. This "Hooters mom" caused a family to leave the church last
> summer
> by angrily demanding that a mom do something about her daughter
> wearing
> short skirts in front of her son. Amazing.
>
> To top everything off tonight, (after this deacon left the meeting),
> I asked
> what the deacons what they would think if I wore a Playboy shirt in
> the
> pulpit. Know what response I got? Nothing! Not a word.
>
> Dear friends, I am really saddened. I have a terrible case of "I'm
> preaching
> and teaching the Word and no one gives a hoot", to use a play on
> words. If
> this is the real moral condition of our folks in this church, after
> nearly 7
> years of ministry here, maybe I should stomp the dust from my feet
> and leave
> also. I'm sorry to burden this group with this, but I need two
> things. One,
> I need to know if I'm being overly sensitive or something here that
> I
> shouldn't be? And two, I need prayer. Monday is coming and most of
> you know
> how Monday is with a minister. Tonight I really wish God had called
> me to be
> a shoe salesman. 🙁
>
> Thanks and may God bless each one of you,
> Pete Campbell
>
>
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