I have been reading stuff like I posted below all morning and I am convinced that people have nothing better to do than talk bad about others... One website I was looking through bashed every minister that they could think of from Shane Claiborne, Rob Bell, Mother Teresa, to Joel Olsteen. Whether or not every view of these people is correct or not there is no reason to find every bad thing you can about them...


I found this article
"Evangelicalism worries chronically about its youth. Polling by the evangelically oriented Barna research group shows that at least half of regular churchgoers ages 16 to 29 think their church is too judgmental, too political and too negative about homosexuality. Princeton sociologist Robert Wuthnow describes today's young adults as spiritual "tinkerers."
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1692051,00.html

Are we afriad that our young people will wake up and realize that homosexuals and prostitues have flesh on them? These are human beings, with flesh, that are real and have real feelings. Are we afraid that this generation of young people just might rise up and realize that love is more important than politics, judgment, and seuality? Not that I am saying I am for homosexuality, but they are humans and there is no reason to sit around and be jerks to them.

Jesus' life was a constant reflection of love...all the way to his death he was loving and forgiving. I mean what did he say hanging on the cross? "Forgive them Father..." after being beaten and torn he still found it in him to love those around him. I do not think it is such a horrible thing that young believers are beginning to catch ahold of this love movement that Shane Claiborn and Rob Bell are after... maybe this generation of young people will rise up and show the world the real God that is full of love and forgiveness. I just do not think we can bash those who are showing love to those they come in contact with. I am not here to say that everything they say or do is perfect, because they are human and there is no way they are perfect, but they are doing their best to get the gospel out in the most effective way. Sorry if they do not use thees and thous...if you are expecting that you have a rude awakening coming because young people today would not know who thee or thou was... so stop bashing people for trying to be relevant and for loving people...its dumb.