Friday, January 11, 2008
“SCREWBALLS & NUTS”
MEGACHURCH LAWSUIT DISMISSED
ORU RESIGNATIONS
Thursday, January 10, 2008
PENTECOSTALS AND CHARISMATICS
• 40% of all non-denominational churches are now
• 36% are Catholics
• 22% are Catholic
• 7% of Southern Baptist churches
• 6% of mainline churches
RULING ON WEARING CROSS
MORE NOT ATTENDING CHURCH
2007 - 22%
2004 - 17%
Source: National Opinion Research Center at the University of Chicago
THEY SAID IT: SAINTS MENTALLY ILL?
Wednesday, January 9, 2008
ROBERTSON’S PREDICTIONS
BIBLE GIVEAWAY STOPPED
WHAT NON-CHUCHGOERS THINK
A survey of non-churchgoers who agree with these statements:
• I have at least one close friend who is Christian - 71%
• I can have a "good relationship with God without belonging to a church - 86%
• Christianity today is more about organized religion than loving God and loving people -79%
• I would "be willing to listen" to someone tell "what he or she believed about Christianity - 78%
• God, a higher or supreme being, actually exists - 72%
• The church is "full of hypocrites - 72%
• The God of the Bible is "no different from the gods or spiritual beings depicted by world religions such as Islam, Hinduism, Buddhism, etc. - 61%
• Jesus died and came back to life - 52%
• Christians get on my nerves - 44%
The margin of error is plus or minus 2.5 percentage points
Source: LifeWay Research, the research arm of the Southern Baptist Convention
Tuesday, January 8, 2008
SATANISTS ARRESTED
Two Satanists are behind bars in Phenix City, Alabama. Police say they are responsible for a series of arson and vandalism at rural churches. Graffiti like Teach children to worship Satan!! was scrawled on walls at some of the churches. The two men plead not guilty. A task force of federal, state and local authorities tracked them down when the grandmother of one of the men called police. She had found a brass cross in the home along with other items taken from churches.
THE GOSPEL OF MANAGEMENT
THE GREATEST REVOLUTIONARY
Venezuela's President Hugo Chavez says he’s a devout Christian and that Jesus Christ was "the greatest revolutionary in history, for defending the poor against the powerful." The left wing leader made the comment in an interview with supermodel Naomi Campbell. She was hired by GQ magazine to interview Chavez.