A couple of tidbits from Rick Warren's invocation at the inauguration of B. Hussein Obama:
And, we know today that Dr. King and a great cloud of witnesses are shouting in heaven!
Really? How does RW know that MLK is in heaven? Alan Stang provides a succinct lowdown on "Dr." King here and here.
...but whoremongers and adulterers God will judge. Hebrews 13:4b
Also: I humbly ask this in the name of the one who changed my life...
The reader will notice that RW doesn't refer to the Lord Jesus Christ (in fact, RW doesn't refer to Him as the Lord Jesus Christ) as the One who takes away the sin of the world (John 1:29), and before whom every knee will bow (Romans 14:10-11), but in typical man-centred evangelical style, merely as the one who changed his life. That seems to leave it open to the listener to let his life be changed (or not) by Jesus--or anyone of the listener's choice. Not that this is unusual for Rick Warren--just listen to his TED talk from 2006:
Daily Luther Sermon Quote - Epiphany 3 Centurion - "Here behold the
attitude of faith toward Christ: it sets before itself absolutely nothing
but the pure goodness and free grace of Christ, without seeking and
bringing any merit. For here it certainly cannot be said, that the leper
merited by his purity to approach Christ, to speak to him and to invoke his
help. Nay, just because he feels his impurity and unworthiness, he
approaches all the more and looks only upon the goodness of Christ. This is
true faith, a living confidence in the goodness of God."
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Third Sunday after Epiphany. Matthew 8:1-13. Christ heals the Centurion’s
Servant, or Two Examples of Faith and Love. The Faith and Baptism of
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