Would you permit the man described to preach in your church?

</font>[/QUOTE]Diane, I don't know if Dr. Al Mohler, President of Southern Baptist Theological Seminary in Louisville smokes cigars or not but he sure is a Calvinist.

You wouldn't let him preach in your church?

But yet you send him your cooperative program dollars?

 

Hey, maybe he'd learn something during our altar call!

This isn't the forum for C/A debate but NO.... I would NEVER vote for or stay in a church with a pastor who didn't believe in Free Will. I'm so thankful my church family is like minded!

Diane

 

I believe what he said was "It is not what goes into the body that . . .". This same arguement you used could be used for smoking.

Agreed, but he didn't say anything about teaching agaist french fries, milkshakes, and suger water

and to steal from your response to someone else

and MacDonand's is even more harmful! You seemed to have ignored this point. As I said, heart disease is the number one killer, and there is a strong correlation between most cancers and the amount of meat eaten by the US and other countries. But that leads me to another point. If you take the above postion on God's temple, what about exercise? It is a medical consensus to a lack of exercise is very harmful for our healths. This wasn't an issue when we were all farmers but now now that most of us have desk jobs (or stand behind counter jobs) we hardly get any movement in. Studies show that people who are overweight and excersise are more healthy then seditary skinny guys. So how many times must a pastor hit the gym a week before you would let him preach, based on your God's temple principle.

BTW, I eat MacDonald's and don't smoke, so I have no agenda. I just don't think it is very consistant. . . . .

 

Pete Richert,

I accept you point on diet and exercise. It is a valid concern that we be balanced and keep ourselves in good health without forbidding outright things that God allows.

So what would you advise me to do? Become more careful about what I eat and how I exercise and be more careful about the people I choose to fill to pulpit in regard to those issues, or become more careless and let people who smoke fill the pulpit?