Comments on: The Rickster… http://www.cityfellowship.com/2009/01/the-rickster/ Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:20:56 -0500 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 By: ljkim http://www.cityfellowship.com/2009/01/the-rickster/comment-page-1/#comment-260 ljkim Fri, 30 Jan 2009 20:35:52 +0000 http://www.cityfellowship.com/?p=376#comment-260 Hey SJ, I don't think Rick Warren did anything wrong. I should have titled it "Poor Rick Warren." I think he did exactly what the folks who put him there expected him to do, so it's unfortunate the way people wind up seeing him... The majority of the people watching the inauguration probably were not evangelical. So unless someone were super-super careful, they would feel excluded by the prayer. Just the way evangelicals might feel excluded if it was a Muslim preacher praying at the inauguration...even if it was essentially (theologically) the exact same prayer... But I think it is possible to be Christian, and public about one's faith, without making non-Christians feel excluded. And the command to "love one's neighbor" means we have to learn to do just that. Hey SJ, I don’t think Rick Warren did anything wrong. I should have titled it “Poor Rick Warren.” I think he did exactly what the folks who put him there expected him to do, so it’s unfortunate the way people wind up seeing him…

The majority of the people watching the inauguration probably were not evangelical. So unless someone were super-super careful, they would feel excluded by the prayer. Just the way evangelicals might feel excluded if it was a Muslim preacher praying at the inauguration…even if it was essentially (theologically) the exact same prayer…

But I think it is possible to be Christian, and public about one’s faith, without making non-Christians feel excluded. And the command to “love one’s neighbor” means we have to learn to do just that.

]]> By: SJ http://www.cityfellowship.com/2009/01/the-rickster/comment-page-1/#comment-259 SJ Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:44:33 +0000 http://www.cityfellowship.com/?p=376#comment-259 But what about the Rickster himself? Do you think that his prayer was appropriate or that he should have "watered it down"? Or is it a question of if Obama invited Warren, an evangelical Southern Baptist pastor, then the President should have known what kind of prayer to expect? But what about the Rickster himself? Do you think that his prayer was appropriate or that he should have “watered it down”? Or is it a question of if Obama invited Warren, an evangelical Southern Baptist pastor, then the President should have known what kind of prayer to expect?

]]>