I am a huge fan of Melvin Jones. Melvin Jones of pulpit-pimps.org. He keeps it real, tells it like it is, and has SCRIPTURES to back his words. Having said that...I've visited his site today and read his post (always informative), and was disturbed by the "Church" yet again.
After reading Melvin's post I couldn't help but ask...W.D.J.T (What Does Jesus Think?) Brothers and Sisters, below is Melvin's post. Read it for yourself (and shake your head in disgust, dismay, add your own adjective here___________):
Posted by Melvin Jones on September 24th, 2007
Before I start the posting, I would like to dedicate it with a song by our official Hymnist and Mongoose, GaryV. It is sung to the tune of “Amazing Grace.”
Let’s praise the dollar with our voices! Everybody now!!!
Amazing waste, with Dolby Sound
And JumboTron® sized screens,
The marble’s gloss is worth the cost
The sheeple pay the lien.
T’was Jakes that taught poor John to shear
and fleece the wand’ring sheep
How precious did that cash appear
The hour they first deceived Come,
take a Starbucks to your chair
Recline and rest your feet
An ATM is built right in
To print out your receipt
This Sunday we have TD Jakes
Next week it’s Joel Osteen
And if the off’ring lags too much
Steve Munsey’s in the wings
When we’ve been gone a thousand years
And this old world is done
God will appraise Amazing Waste
By fire through His Son Amazing Waste,
they don’t expound
The Word unto the sheep
But you can get fresh bagels there
With jelly or cream cheese.
Amen
I made it out to the Mausoleum, Memorial and Museum Dedication and Mutual Admiration Event this past Wednesday. Between John telling us how wonderful T. Dexter is, and T. Dexter telling us how wonderful John Jenkins is, I thought they were going to start their own Big Dog Mutual Admiration Society right then and there. But more on that later.
I made a mistake, by the way.
In one article I said that the building was 120, 000 square feet. According to the Washington Post and the Souvenir Program, the building is actually 205,000 square feet. Here is an excerpt from the
Post :
"The multimillion-dollar church building, one of the region’s largest at 205,000 square feet, includes a bookstore and several classrooms. It was designed by HH Architects of Dallas, which specializes in mega-churches." *quotes added by Ivent*
I’ve nattered on enough about the size in a previous post. I won’t revisit that.
I got to the church about 7:05 and the parking lot was already full. I had to park across the street in the little school’s parking lot. By the time I got back to the parking lot later that evening, the school parking lot was full as well.
For now I’ll attribute this to the fact that T. Dexter, the next Billy Graham was speaking.
Coming in the main entrance, one of the first things you see is the bookstore. Given my love of books, and considering the fact that you can tell where a person stands based on the books in his library, I made a beeline for the store. Here’s the fist thing I saw:
(see pic above, left )
Yeah, a great big blow up of John Jenkins and the First Lady. (Sorry about that all you second and third string ladies out there) And here’s the second picture
(see pic above on right)
Right again – it’s a huge blow-up of John. Maybe I could understand them if they were in some way tied to the grand opening. But these items don’t appear to be related to the grand opening at all. There is no reference to the grand opening. So tell me again that this is all about Jesus Christ and Him glorified.
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To read this post in it's entirety, go to http://www.pulpit-pimps.org/ dated September 24,2007. Bro. Melvin wrote a lengthy and informed post of his visit at this "mausoleum." Bigger may be better to the world, but big edifices does not give you "go-straight-to-heaven" card. THIS IS NOT MONOPOLY, however these "leaders" are playing games with their lives, and those of God's people.
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