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09-06-2006, 02:03 AM
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Signs and warnings
Just read this today and found it refreshing.
"File this under "Things one thinks about after eating a bad piece of meat": We've seen a handful of athletes grounded this summer because of suspicions regarding performance-enhancing drugs (steroids, testosterone, etc.). It occurred to me that this may be why there are any number of preachers and leaders in the church today who are so much better than the rest of us: It has to be performance-enhancing drugs! An executive pastor (speaking off the record) told me that these drugs come from a secret clinic in the Swiss Alps. Here in New England we have never heard about this. I think you have to live in Illinois, California, or the Deep South. I smell scandal, and I am proposing that we establish an Evangelical Performance Enhancing Drug Accountability Agency (EPEDAA), whose agents would periodically tap e-mail and phone conversations and take surprise on-site samples of you-know-what (just before Sunday services—even better just before the offering). I know these are questionable activities, legally speaking, but these are dangerous times, and we've got to level the playing field. Anyway, by doing this we'd really know who is being truly anointed by the Holy Spirit and who should get an asterisk beside their *attendance figures. The only bumper sticker that has caught my attention recently: Don't believe everything you think. Pastor and author Gordon MacDonald is chair of World Relief and editor at large for Leadership. To respond to this newsletter, write to Newsletter@LeadershipJournal.net. Copyright © 2006 by the author or Christianity Today International/Leadership Journal. Click here for reprint information on Leadership Journal. September 1, 2006 I am not all that familiar with Gordon MacDonald except the things he has written on this website. But this article seemed to be a healthy sign that not all clergy are to be distrusted. The entire article is quite good. There are days I don't know that I should believe anything I think! Warm hugs, Anna Marta
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09-06-2006, 08:29 AM
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Re: Signs and warnings
Hi, Anna Marta,
Well, a number of us did suspect my old "pastor" of really taking anabolic steroids (he's all bulked up, belongs to the Powerhouse Gym and told my son he spends at least 3 hours there every day, is also an accomplished martial arts practitioner, etc.), so -- sometimes fiction simply emulates truth that's out there somewhere!  My old "pastor" would throw what we thought might be 'roid rages and was extremely paranoid...Gordon MacDonald may find humor in this, and it is funny -- but in my case, it really happened... Thanks for this thread! It actually bolstered my recovery process, to think that someone would make fun of "performance-enhancing drugs" in pastors... mary
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09-06-2006, 02:44 PM
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Re: Signs and warnings
Quote:
I got a tire-iron from a 57 chevy that says he ain't much ,,,,, LOL
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09-06-2006, 06:56 PM
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Re: Signs and warnings
I am not all that familiar with Gordon MacDonald except the things he has written on this website. But this article seemed to be a healthy sign that not all clergy are to be distrusted. The entire article is quite good.
There are days I don't know that I should believe anything I think! Warm hugs, Anna Marta[/QUOTE] Gordon MacDonald has a good resume. He was president of InterVarsity Christian Fellowship, a well respected campus christian fellowship. He was president of Worldvision. I believe he was on the administrative staff at Gordon College in Wenham, Massachusetts. A balanced solid thinker. That is a good read. Interesting share.
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