Salt v. Sugar IV

My heart breaks for the people of New Spring Church in South Carolina.

It is clearly a "seeker friendly" church, so their intention--which, apparently, is to fulfill Matthew 29.19--is correct. But when seekers find this body of Christians, to what kind of God are they being introduced?

Is it the same God Whose holiness permeated the very ground on which Moses stood? The God in Whose presence Moses "trembled with fear" on Mt Sinai; at the sight of Whom the Prophet Isaiah became "undone"?

Is it the God at Whose appearance Abraham, the Prophet Ezekiel, and John the Evangelist fell on their faces? Whose holiness so filled the House of the Lord that "the priests could not stand to minister"? In worship of Whom Joshua "fell on his face to the earth"?

Is it the God Who is "glorious in holiness, fearful in praises," Who "art of purer eyes than to behold evil, and cannot look on iniquity"?

Are they encountering the God Whose glory fills the whole earth, Who is to be served with fear, Whose ways and thoughts are as above ours as the heavens are above the earth, Who is "greatly to be feared in the assembly of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are about him"?

Sadly--tragically!!--no. The god whom these seekers at New Spring Church are being shown is one whose worship can be postponed in favor of professional sports.



If this is the extent of the holiness that they attribute to their god, then how much holiness can they truly believe is expected of them? (Ex 19.6; Lv 11.44; 19.2; 20.7, 26; 21.8; 1Pt 1.16; 1Th 4.7)