Did you hear the one about the pastor and the strippers?
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8.13.2010
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5 Comments:
So the church's vision is to alienate strippers? How sad.
The stripper's presence has 'solidified' and 'unified' their ministry...m'kay.
Sad. Didn't Jesus have a tendency to treat women like that as people with dignity?
I don't think he would have condoned their sin, but I am troubled by a congregation thinking itself righteous enough to throw stones.
I was recently watching the You Tube documentary on the life of Amy Grant, where she is talking about those days in the 70's when her church and plenty of others were genuinely caring and reaching out to those that Jesus Himself clearly cared about. Thankfully, I've heard of other 'ministries' which still do, which is the way we really need to be seen in these circumstances.
Listen carefully to the first stripper that spoke. She has an innate grasp of the paradoxical human condition; our being created good by God, but deeply scarred by original sin.
If someone (especially a woman) were interested, that would be a conversation starter for her to hear the Gospel.
Churches like that remind me of Dorothy Sayers' comments about the "Seven Deadly Virtues" Respectability, Childishness, Mental Timidity, Dullness, Sentimentality, Censoriousness, and Depression of Spirits.
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