Is this protestant pastor for real..?

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KrazyKat said:
Many start out with good intentions with guys like him and eventually find the Truth they are seeking!
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Yes–God can use evil for good! Thank God.

Probably Murdock started out with some sincerity himself , but as Paul said, subsequently wandered away from the faith, enticed by a love of money.
 
Personally it sounds like Mike ripped off his songs from Eric Cartman from South Park. There was an episode where Cartman writes Christian music and these songs sound a lot like them
 
AbideWithMe said:
Mike Murdock is a complete con artist. His love of money is so extreme and obvious that I really can’t think the people who fall for his spiel are entirely innocent for listening to him.
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I truly had never even heard of the man. In that case the song is re-diculous.
 
KrazyKat said:
AND I will be careful what threads I comment on in the future. :)🙂
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I thought your attempt to give him the benefit of the doubt was really nice to see. Unfortunately, Murdock opens his mouth and proves himself to be unworthy of respect.
 
MaryT777 said:
I truly had never even heard of the man. In that case the song is re-diculous.
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I had just heard of him a little, in a negative way, but didn’t actually watch him till yesterday when the OP posted that grossly smarmy video of Murdock talking about money. Ugh.
 
Oh yeah, I love and am pleasured by stroking mah bible. Kiss kiss, rub, rub. Oh yeah!:bible1:
 
I have seen Bibles and scrolls revered in a number of different churches and synagogues. I agree that the video is over the top, but it is in keeping with a type of evangelism that appeals to a lot of people. I note that he was preaching to a largely African-American congregation. The worship style and worship is quite different in the African -American church. In fact, a friend of mine had me investigate her new pastor because his first sermon was largely on translating from Greek. He had a doctoral degree and taught at a major university and did not preach “black.”

In sum, despite all the failings of the man, how do we square this with Paul’s comment in Philippians 1:15-18?
 
I couldn’t get past a few phrases of his song…then reading comments…I couldn’t get to next page but compulsively plunked down…

Christ said to beware of the leaven of the pharisees…today, so much of this is coming right out of the USA to go out all over the world…Here I would say we have to watch out for the prosperity gospel in all its form.

Think the best way to get the world out of the Church and Christianity in general is to look at the Letter written by St. Francis of Assisi to the general faithful of the Church and anyone else who would like to read it, composed after his second bout of a terrible fever in 1231.

Best way to rid the worldly spirit…one on one level…die to self, embrace simplicity and pray all the time and live the spiritual and corporal works of mercy.
 
Oldtimer_7 said:
I have seen Bibles and scrolls revered in a number of different churches and synagogues. I agree that the video is over the top, but it is in keeping with a type of evangelism that appeals to a lot of people. I note that he was preaching to a largely African-American congregation. The worship style and worship is quite different in the African -American church. In fact, a friend of mine had me investigate her new pastor because his first sermon was largely on translating from Greek. He had a doctoral degree and taught at a major university and did not preach “black.”

In sum, despite all the failings of the man, how do we square this with Paul’s comment in Philippians 1:15-18?
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Blacks have really spirit-filled, bring the house down music. This man was soooooo not that. He absolutely untalented. His mama probably used to make people listen to her darlin’ boy, and it gave him a falaely inflated self image.
 
My kids are bi-racial, half Filipino.

They are more tuned into cross culture behavior and they say it is most annoying seeing people of one race act like another.

Oh well, each unto his own.
 
Country Gal and KathleenGee, I did not suggest that the evangelist was acting “black.” I recall a very bizarre news clip of Al Gore in a black church trying to use a black preaching style. It was painful to watch. This man is singing in the (white) Southern Gospel style. As with any style of singing, there is good and bad, and good and bad performance.

The point that I was trying to make was that the ultimate question was whether the Gospel of Jesus Christ was being spread. I would apply this same criterion to any Catholic (or Lutheran) pastor leading a service.
 
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