God bless you

I think Rodimus is just expressing some concern and is passionate about it to the point where he may have left his 'tactfulness' at the door. 

Jesusrave.com... I want you to know that I think you're doing a good thing, especially in keeping your priorities straight. (Jesus #1)
Please be open enough to grasp what this forum is saying to you...we represent your audience...kinda. We're Christians already.
But the gist of what we're saying (mostly in one accord) is that much of your presentation and approach offends the very culture you are trying to represent by being too cheesey. It turns me right off. It doesn't convey the cool underground trendy vibe that Christian Trance/dance actually should. You need to re-examine how this is presented...otherwise not only will YOU be the laughing stock of the 'rave' culture (does it still exist?) but so WILL WE!! We're not trying to keep this underground by any means and we don't really care if we're mocked....I simply say this to express the feelings evoked in my mind when I think of this forum and its culture.

Thanks.

Tobiah, I don't know your heart, and I'm not going to judge it. That's God's job, and He'd prefer I not try to take His job from Him.

That said, in looking at your site and MySpace pages, reading your posts here, etc., there were some flags that went up for me.

First, you talk about your accomplishments a lot. Maybe this is defensive reflex from having been questioned on it a lot. I don't know. But I've seen a lot of references to you being broadcast in prime-time to 5-7 million homes. You promote yourself as "inspired pastor and author". Maybe it's just me and things from my religious past, but warning bells always go off for me when someone declares himself inspired. For me, that brings to mind a cult leader who is the Voice Of God and not to be questioned or contradicted. I looked into the author part a bit. According to Amazon.co.uk, your book was published by Xulon Press. The Xulon web site describes the company as a "Christian Self-Publishing Print-On-Demand Affordable Book Publisher". Essentially, it appears that you're a published author simply because you wrote a book and paid to have it published.

Also, I don't get a feeling of reverence toward Jesus and God from any of your sites. Yeah, we want those who aren't Christians to come to see Jesus as relevant and accessible; however, we still need to have a proper respect and reverence toward Him. I think, combined with the abundance of graphical content in your material, this contributes greatly to many of the "Is this a joke?" initial reactions.

I read portions of your book. While I was glad to see that you stated in the Introduction that it's not canonical and not to be considered equal to the Bible, it troubled me. Things like being pronounced a prophet by God in a vision and having made one or more trips to Heaven to speak to God face to face take me back again to concerns about a cult leader who claims to hear directly from God and whose doctrine and teachings are not to be questioned.

I hate to say it, but the chapters ("riddles") that I read seemed to be incoherent ramblings to me. Perhaps you'd say that's because God hasn't chosen to open my eyes to the answers to the riddles.

To come back to the beginning, I don't know your heart. And I do believe that God can work through other people in ways that He won't through me because I'm resistant to them. I'm not a charismatic. I don't speak in tongues. However, your experience and book just aren't sitting well with my spirit.

I'm also hoping that you misunderstand the definition of the word "parody". In your post from December 6, 2006 at 4:16pm in the "TECHNO CHURCH IN L.A." thread that you started in the MySpace Electronic/Dance forum, you stated:


Dictionary.com defines "parody" as:


Are you calling your work a parody? If it is a parody, than it is meant to be a joke. Or at least meant to be humorous or satirical, but definitely not a serious treatment of the subject: Jesus.

This now being one of the longest posts I've ever made at Tastyfresh, I'll shut up now. (And everybody said... AMEN!) Hopefully, I've been able to successfully explain how some folks (or at least I) might have some concerns, or at least questions, about your ministry.

John, Thanks for doing the research I haven't had time to do yet.

i guess if you want tactfullness just read John's post (very well said and written by the way) if you want the short angry version see mine (-:

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