Goodness knows what the Tea Party in the US would make of this Methodist Preacher. I joined the Labour Party three months after my wholly evangelical conversion and soon after that the Christian Socialist Movement. I read the Sermon on the Mount at 18 it seemed the next logical step.
Just in case any Tea Party types - at least they have some taste when it comes to beverages - come across this blog I've even been known to quote Karl Marx in sermons! Usually alongside the many references in scripture such as James 5:1-6 which could have come straight out of the Communist Manifesto:
Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you. 2 Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. 4 Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. 5 You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter.[a] 6 You have condemned and murdered the innocent one, who was not opposing you.
In America the Methodist Church is under attack for being "socialist" (what a hoot!!). Charley Honey in the Grand Rapids Express takes up the story. BTW I believe that the best hope for humankind is a personal knowledge of the living God. I also preach salvation through redemption. For some in British Methodism that places me well and truly on the theological right!![]()
Just in case any Tea Party types - at least they have some taste when it comes to beverages - come across this blog I've even been known to quote Karl Marx in sermons! Usually alongside the many references in scripture such as James 5:1-6 which could have come straight out of the Communist Manifesto:
Now listen, you rich people, weep and wail because of the misery that is coming on you. 2 Your wealth has rotted, and moths have eaten your clothes. 3 Your gold and silver are corroded. Their corrosion will testify against you and eat your flesh like fire. You have hoarded wealth in the last days. 4 Look! The wages you failed to pay the workers who mowed your fields are crying out against you. The cries of the harvesters have reached the ears of the Lord Almighty. 5 You have lived on earth in luxury and self-indulgence. You have fattened yourselves in the day of slaughter.[a] 6 You have condemned and murdered the innocent one, who was not opposing you.
In America the Methodist Church is under attack for being "socialist" (what a hoot!!). Charley Honey in the Grand Rapids Express takes up the story. BTW I believe that the best hope for humankind is a personal knowledge of the living God. I also preach salvation through redemption. For some in British Methodism that places me well and truly on the theological right!
