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YouTubesday: Our Daughters, Brokenness, Testimony

1 July 2008 Comments

Fathers and Daughters (ht. PEM)

Interesting visual message from a church service (8 minutes long, but you can get the idea early on) (ht. Gavin)

A moving testimony by Nancy (ht. Nate)

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adria said:

I enjoyed all of these…for a while.

The second one, about the cardboard confessions, was good up until the end. If one watches the whole thing, the end reveals the emotional manipulation used to apparently encourage people to give their “resources” to the church. To be fair, he does say that we are to concern ourselves with whether “lives are being changed” (this is true). However, he also says that Satan tells us “this church doesn’t need your money,” but I would argue that if you look at the technology this church is operating on and calculate the cost, you could conclude through logic that this church indeed does not need your money and Satan has nothing to do with it. That’s what he says, anyway, and I suppose I have to take him at his word. I just got a bad feeling afterward, like I had been tricked into believing this demonstration was all about how God interacts with us now and heals us now. Apparently it was all about buying a welcoming committee later on in the kingdom of heaven. Last time I checked the kingdom of heaven was here now and didn’t take dollars. Oh no, I’ve said to much…again.

# 1 July 2008 at 9:12 am

Ariah (author) said:

Adria,

Thanks for chiming in good friend ;)
You never say too much, I only wish you’d say more.

I think your spot on about the cardboard confessions video. I actually hadn’t watched it to the end before, oops. But, Gavin, who I got the video from mentioned a similar feeling:

“the cynic in me said, boy there are a lot of tvs in that place”

I like sometimes putting up videos, even without my own commentary, because I have so many brilliant blog readers and you have your own thought provoking things to say. So thanks for sharing that.

# 1 July 2008 at 10:03 am

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