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Monday, June 1, 2009

Tell me what you think about this video:  

4 comments:

Jen said...

Wow, I don't know that I've ever heard John Piper be that angry.

Huh. I don't know, what do you think about that video?

Beth said...

I'm with Jen... what do you think? ;)
I really appreciate the message, and the passion. I have a hard time with John Piper since learning that he holds to complementarian views of gender roles. A touchy subject for me, you know. But if we're talking about the video as separate as possible from John Piper, I think it's a good message. But truth be told, I do not think I could stand over the body of my dead child and say god is enough.

Jen said...

Yeah, I don't know if I could ever call that a beautiful thing. It is actually pretty revolting to me. And I'm not really down with glorifying poverty or suffering, but I agree that American exported Christianity is lots of times icky and dishonest and harmful.

Jaime said...

Yeah- the issue I had with this video was the whole dead child thing. Otherwise I appreciated his passion for the subject of poverty and the prosperity gospel. Also- not a huge John Piper fan since I had to read his book for Human Sexuality and it was AWFUL.