Tuesday
Dec162003
Church Votes to Expel Non-Purpose Driven Members
Tuesday, December 16, 2003 at 12:11AM
From The Holy Observer:
In a groundbreaking move, the elder board at MCC ñ a nondenominational "mega-church" ñ passed a resolution to revoke the membership of any church member who does not, by the end of 2003, read The Purpose Driven Life, the New York Times bestselling book by Rick Warren, the founding pastor of Lake Forest, California's celebrated Saddleback Community Church and author of The Purpose Driven Church. "Upon encountering this life-changing book, we realized that if members of our church aren't leading a purpose driven life, they really don't have much value as believers," said Senior Pastor Charles Moynihan. "After much prayer and consideration, we simply decided that they can take their purposelessness elsewhere."I say it's about time. I would extend the ban to anyone who hasn't read The Prayer of Jabez as well. Some other good stories at today's update of The Holy Observer, including one that threatens the future of the Methodist union. (Does it ever hurt when satirical websites are so close to the real thing.)
Reader Comments (7)
Yeahh...I also heard that Saddam Husein has now converted to Christianity too :)
Hey Darryl, what happened to that "The Searching" website. Did you remove that Jared guy from your blog roll?
Yes. He wasn't reading the Purpose Driven Life. Seriously, here's the site: http://thesearching.blogspot.com/" rel="nofollow">http://thesearching.blogspot.com/
This post had me going for a few seconds.
I think this is going a little too far. It's only a human book and not like it's the Bible. It sounds like flat out legalism actually.
Brenna-Lynn: it's satire. It's not serious. Although it's so strange it could be true somewhere.
Some of the stories are satire, while some look like they could be true. Saddleback's pastors.com has banned quite a few (and not just for using the e-mail addresses for spam). Look at the attitude here: http://www.dashhouse.com/mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=342" rel="nofollow">http://www.dashhouse.com/mt/mt-comments.cgi?entry_id=342