In October, 2007 Churches in Busan, South Korea invited evangelist Franklin Graham in hopes of reviving their country. Sang Gyoo Lee, a professor of church history at Kosin University reportedly said, "Faction-torn churches set aside their differences to work together to reach their nation..."

I'd like to hear what these reunited church leaders tell the Korean heathens how to receive eternal life.

"You must be water baptized, but it's really just an OUTWARD sign of an INWARD change. If you invite Jesus into your heart, you must also make him Lord of your life, but that's only if He has predestined to accept you. If you speak in unknown tongues, that means you were filled with the Holy Spirit and you were sealed until the day of redemption, however if you do backslide and lose your salvation, you can never be saved again and it will be worse for you than if you had never been saved."

How can a group of people who have never been able to determine the criteria for SALVATION hope to help save ANYONE? The very best they could do in Korea is to spread their own confusion among another nation of people. (And this is the church that is to represent God and bring Christianity to others!)

How can these preachers ignore their contradictory doctrines and actually believe the twisted messages they bring are rational representations of God’s plan of salvation?  I suppose if they deliver their messages with confidence and use a lot of gesturing, then people will believe them.

 A new website that has good comparisons between scripture and church traditions is located at:

http://www.graceteacher.com/   Hector

The Associated Press said this past Sunday that, “If Anglicanism continues on the path of slow but steady splintering, it will effectively do as much harm as a formal schism.” Anglicanism is the world’s third-largest sect of Christianity—the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches are the first and second, respectively.

 The article said the cause is, “Theological conflict over the 2003 consecration of the first openly gay Episcopal bishop, V. Gene Robinson of New Hampshire…”

 I find it fascinating that the apparently imminent break-up of a 77 million person organization has not found staying power in the global media. Perhaps if a daughter of a prominent gay Episcopal minister had been kidnapped we would have heard more. Or maybe if Rev. Robinson had been found in a sex scandal, with compromising text messages and foot signals.

 The fact that millions are warring over a moral issue didn’t carry much weight Sunday; the issue was dropped and hasn’t become a media front-runner. It seems that Christians will have to be a bit more scandalous if they are to expect media attention.