Confessions of a Recovering Pharisee

[KVUE]

A Southern Baptist leader and teacher has a message for women: Taking birth control pills is “murder” and a “sin.”

The opinion of Dr. Thomas White is reverberating around Baptist circles, and causing at least one Tarrant County pastor to publicly disagree.

Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Fort Worth shapes the Baptist pastors of tomorrow, determining the future of the church. That’s why Dr. White’s sermon earlier this month is getting so much attention. Dr. White is a mentor at the seminary, charged with helping future pastors make the right decisions. But earlier this month, a repentant Dr. White addressed those students. He confessed that he and his wife had employed birth control pill years earlier.

“The reason that we did it was my own selfishness,” he said. “I wanted kids, but I wanted kids — not in God’s timing, but in my timing.”

Dr. White now condemns the use of birth control pills, saying, “It’s murder of a life.” Dr. White declined a request for an on-camera interview Tuesday, citing a busy schedule. In an e-mail message, he said he’s not against all forms of birth control.

In his sermon, however, that point was not made. Instead, he went further, speaking against the attempt to control conception.

“Some of you are involved in that exact same sin,” Dr. White said.

“This is fundamentalism run amok, and I’m concerned that once was the world’s largest theological seminary is degenerating into a Baptist fundamentalist indoctrination camp,” said Dwight McKissic, Senior Pastor at Cornerstone Baptist Church in Arlington and a former trustee of the seminary.

Read more here.

From Web MD

[From me]

According to Web MD the pill doesn’t kill anything.  It prevents the egg from being released in the woman. Now I’m not a doctor but I do trust those who are.  No where in Web MD did I read anything about something being killed but just preventing. 

Now I know there are others who subscribe to different views about having children but to call someone a murderer without the facts seems rather harsh. How can you kill something that was never created?

What do you think?

[World Net Daily]

The prospect that America’s most-watched television program would feature a popular Christian worship song to close its fundraising special last night generated a buzz on the Internet, but some now are crying foul after the lyrics were altered to eliminate the word “Jesus.”

In the grand finale of “American Idol Gives Back,” eight “Idol” finalists performed “Shout to the Lord,” the song by Darlene Zschech of Australia’s Hillsong Church that has been sung in thousands of congregations around the world.

Zschech’s lyrics open with “My Jesus, My Savior, Lord there is none like You, All of my days, I want to praise, The wonders of Your mighty love.”

Instead of “My Jesus,” however, viewers last night heard the “American Idol” stars begin the song with “My shepherd,”

Molly Heinz, who handles publicity for “American Idol” with the Fox television network, has not responded to WND’s request for comment. However, the next night’s show, the regular weekly “results” show, featured the same song, and this time “Jesus” was not edited.

Read about it here.

[From me]

People need to get a life!  1st, they only had so much time to sing.  2nd, people hear the song, they like it and they buy the original and hear how good Hillsong is.  Then they hear the Gospel.  3rd, they sang the whole version last night. I know several Integrity Music people from my time living in Mobile.  They are great people and they are all about ministry.  Get a life people!

What do you think?