Ok, I'll try something else. I'll go with a musical question.

If there was one instrument you could play that would have you compared to the greats who play it, what would it be?

As much as I like rock music, I also like jazz. If I could, I would love to be able to play the saxophone.

Name a movie in the last 10 years you can watch over and over.

For me it would be 'High Fidelity.' It never gets boring.

Sweet. There is also Android 2.2 blowing iOS4 out of the water in JavaScript execution.
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You know, that's just mean.

But I like your style Shaun! Keep plugging brother. I love what you're doing.

Remember too that Democrats consider tax cuts to be "spending." Remember, they think it's all of their money. Obama will talk about how the country cannot "afford" to keep in place all of the tax cuts Bush "gave away."

Sounds great. @jaycaruso

I think there's so many churches simply because there are so many different styles of worship (and I don't just mean that in the musical sense). I know that our church lost many of the founding members largely because of our move towards more things contemporary. For instance, our Pastor started reading from the New King James Bible and also quotes The Message and other translations as opposed to reading only from the KJV. Also, we eliminated (this was nearly 5 years ago) the 'traditional' service and went 100% contemporary.

This isn't necessarily a bad thing. It's just a preference. The only issue that I have with it is we don't want to see more and more "smaller churches" around simply for the sake of being "smaller." Growth is important to a church. On the flip side of that however is the desire for churches to grow simply for the sake of growing and being able to say, "We have 5000 weekly attend our church."

Time for a contrary point of view.

I don't listen to Beck's radio show or watch his television show (After listening to talk radio and watching cable news for years, it's all just noise really) but I do know from experience that bombast and over the top statements are par for the course for any political host, be it left or right.

While right off the bat it would be hard to defend Beck's comments, there is a political angle to it specifically with his mention of Jeremiah Wright. Let's be honest. There are plenty of pastors across the country who trade in teaching about salvation and eternal life through Jesus Christ for a platform that enables them to use their pulpits as a means of making economic or political change.

Often that change (which is largely left wing liberal politics) is cloaked in the term "social justice." What I have been reading and hearing is a variation of, "Well if the people aren't going to do what they should, then the government should step in to help the poor and oppressed." Granted, I would agree the church (which is made up of the people who go there) does not do enough. There was some awful statistic that I read which said less than 5% of evangelical Christians tithe. That needs to change. But look at some of these other issues:

Cap and trade. Healthcare reform. Increased taxes. Mortgage reform. Financial reform. Look into it. It won't be hard to find somebody attaching the phrase "social justice" to these programs. None of which have anything to do with helping the "poor and the oppressed" (though some might argue otherwise).

And of all the things the government can do, the one thing it cannot do for people is bring them the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Not the "social gospel" of caring for the poor and oppressed (those actions are the implications or results of the gospel) but rather the gospel that teaches that Christ was a living sacrifice for us and died on the cross in effect becoming sin to pay the debt of ours and that salvation comes in believing on this and accepting Him as our Lord and Savior. If we don't do that, then feeding every poor person in the world won't mean a thing the moment they take their last breaths on this earth.

So. Acting out in faith and caring for the poor in our communities, cities, counties, states, country and the world? Yes, even if people want to attach the label of "social justice" to it. Tying "social justice" to liberal political programs and policies and proclaiming it in the name of Jesus the way Jim Wallis does? No good. It's wrong. And that goes for both ends of the political spectrum, bet it Wallis or James Dobson.

Rant over.

Understood. My comment was in the context of salvation not knowledge.

Inviting people from other faiths to church services and events should be encouraged. How else are they going to hear about Jesus otherwise? Our church has events that are open to anybody that wants to come.

In fact, if you're not reaching out to the community and inviting anybody that wants to come, then you're deviating from what Christ commanded us to do which was to make disciples of ALL nations.