and the v articulate Bono isn't
here to deal with this himself
..but for me,
isn't it true
biblically that speech (as choice of wording in this case) is
always a problem relative to the Word of God?
this seems evident;
biblical writers have indicated that the Spirit appears to
be more permissive with them than their readers, audiences,
outsiders (naive onlookers) expect/ed
a corollary would
be that (e.g.) an outside/er's perspective, thoroughly lacking
biblical permissiveness effectively disqualifies him as a valued
judge of in/appropriate human speech; for the biblical writers, it
fell to the Spirit to handle that, ultimately to handle, e.g., the language of
Matthew 23 relative to, e.g., 1Cor 13..
humans naturally attempt to
assess the net spiritual effect of such ministries, including, e.g.,
of 20th c. Billy Graham, of 21st c. 'SPs' (meaning that we assess the
outcomes of their SPing per se , assessing the end result of
thier speech/es irrespective of the technological medium/s..e.g., that
you've refered to Spurgeon with some reverence presumes such an
assessment)
to be completely fair,
though, what about the very same type of assessment (rigorously!)
of the band: U2 -- why not? do you know their ministerial
roots? how would
some bars of 'how to dismantle an atomic bomb': 'Yahweh' minister
to street people in downtown SLC..maybe about like it did to those in
NYC the day last fall that U2 rented a flatbed to serenade people
roving the streets of Manhattan..the NYC police had zero problem
with U2 being there except for the ocean of people along
their truck route, straining against the ropes to listen to
'Yahweh'..
i'll post some of their
'bomb' lyrics for you to analyze for yourself/s...hopefully,
along with Izzy and me:)
G
On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 16:37:59 -0800 (PST) Kevin Deegan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
writes:
Do you think Bono is a Christian with that dirty mouth of his?
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