Erotic Church Service
The ultimate in 'seeker sensitive' services has arrived and it is drawing crowds so large that they're having to turn people away. It is called Erotic Church and according to the news story:
'A female dancer dances in a skin coloured stocking in the middle of the church in front of the altar. She crawls about on the floor and wraps herself in a hanging down white cloth. Is this a blasphemous provocation, a scoffing at the Christian religion?'No it is only one of the items on the agenda of the Protestant Church Assembly. The six-hundred-year-old church, the Church of the Carthusians in the south of Cologne has become the stage for an erotic church service. Nearly one thousand interested people waited outside the door of the former monastery, despite a thunderstorm- but in the end there was only room for four hundred people...
'The vicar arrived in a black cassock and barefoot. He announced that eroticism and lust are not taboo areas pushed aside by God. In fact, "lust has to be lived out", said Armin Beuscher, who tempered his speech immediately, by saying, “we are of course today in this service only able to implement this in a limited manner”...
'The faithful were then asked to take part in an anointing ritual in which they should massage the forehead and hands of the person sitting next to them. Some go further and embrace each other whilst others kiss. The atmosphere gets more relaxed. This is how most church services should be said Birgit Kruger
I can't believe I am reading this. Do people even read their bibles anymore? This service is one step away from turning into group sex, or maybe that will happen next? This is sickening and I am in total shock still.
Posted by: Dawn | June 13, 2007 at 03:13 PM
No, I think the group sex will come and it's because the church is carnal, sensual and bowing to baal. Now they'll be able to bow before him, (satan, actually), perform sex acts, bring in the child sacrifice next on the altar, perform all manner of wickedness and say their "christians"....>COME SOON LORD JESUS AND BRING YOUR KINGDOM To EARTH !!
Posted by: T.J. | June 13, 2007 at 10:56 PM
wow, thats really sad how far removed from Christ they have become.
Posted by: kiwitrouthunter | June 26, 2007 at 02:44 PM
Not a new thing. In Richardson, Texas, in the late '70s, a stripper was the feature at a "church" service in that city.
This woman billed herself as a "Stripper for Christ." Beginning a pastorate in that city shortly after, I naturally caught my share of the kidding about this occurence. I thought it rather interesting that the denomination of the "church" was never mentioned in any of the papers I read or on any of the radio or TV programs I heard or watched. However, the stripper appeared at a Unitarian-Universalist church, certainly not at the Baptist church which I pastored.
Posted by: David B. | June 26, 2007 at 03:41 PM
I think they used to call her Ishtar...
So lust is to be "lived out," huh? What happens if the object thereof doesn't reciprocate? Do you just live with a bad situation (by their lights), or do you just go ahead with rape?
Posted by: Mrs. Pilgrim | June 28, 2007 at 04:31 PM
even so come Lord Jesus Help us to be faithful.There are few that will enter into eternal life.
Posted by: Edwin Waldner | August 31, 2007 at 11:12 PM
I guess the "normal" reverence for GOD by congregations of Believers as is prescribed in the Bible is no longer fashionable. After all, the competition for sheep out there is ruthlessly fierce, what, with your mega-churches with a Starbucks right there in the lobby. Smaller venues have to come up with a strategy to lure folks in. Living Jesusy and the such hasn't worked effectively since Carter was in the White House.
But, good heavens! I'm looking at the secret places of some sister's temple intended to be seen only by the Lord and her husband. I now know way more about just how fearfully and wonderfully made this woman is than I will ever live long enough to appreciate, even with Divine intervention to guide me. What's more is I can't rightly say that the Lord is legitimately glorified, no matter how loudly cat-callers from the last pew scream thanks and praises to Him for this glimpse of her Divinity.
Do we really need to resort to these crass and shameless Hooters-esque tactics just to get bodies onto the pews two or three times a week?
Posted by: Penny | February 22, 2008 at 01:23 PM
Not saying this to take or use God's name in vain, but God damn them and anyone supporting this to Hell, and He will unless they repent.
Posted by: William Pratt | March 16, 2008 at 10:58 AM
Matt. 7:1 "Do not judge, or you too will be judged."
Posted by: kate | November 12, 2008 at 02:38 PM
Read the article "Doesn't the Bible Say Not to Judge?" in the sidebar.
Posted by: Lyra | December 21, 2008 at 07:32 PM