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Well, let’s talk about war, the war that really matters, the war that’s here at home, the spiritual war. I was surprised to see over the weekend there was a christian conference for men. They call it the stronger men’s conference. And, you know, I talked a few months ago, I guess it was maybe, you know, before Christmas, maybe last fall. Anyway, talked to a guy who’s now head of promise keepers.
He’s very based as a Christian. He wrote a book. He talked about the fact they don’t do these big events anymore. They’re doing smaller events in different places. And I can kind of understand why, when you look at this event, they’re talking about a stronger men’s conference. It looks like a bunch of boys with toys. It looks pretty silly, quite frankly, and it looks pretty dumbed down and degenerate as well.
But first of all, what do they do, Travis? Pull this article up. The show, the tank driving over the cars and the pyrotechnics going off, all the rest. A promo video for this year’s stronger men’s conference opens up with a montage of men lifting weights, revving motorcycle engines and boxing. Then, as the song soars with lyrics of being ready to fight, a wrestler smashes a chair into the head of another man dressed up as a superhero.
And a monster truck flies through pyrotechnics. A bull rider gets bucked, a cowboy snaps his whip and more chairs get smashed over the superheroes heads, interspersed with sermon clips. Well, we don’t wrestle with flesh and blood or with monster cars. Strong men. There’s the clip. Thank you for getting that. Strong men. These are boys looking for toys. This is just pure entertainment. And look, there’s nothing wrong with pure entertainment.
You want to go to something like this, you know, a big truck show or something like that, fine. I don’t care about it. I’m not going to criticize you for that. But this is not about building stronger men. Let’s just be honest. This is just about boyish entertainment and has nothing to do with building strong men. And as an example of it, the way they opened their conference was with a male stripper on a pole.
A male stripper on a pole. For a men’s conference, he was billed as the finest swordsman in all the world. Slowly circled a pole on a stage. He peeled off his red leather top, slid his tongue up to the tip of the sword, swallowed the sword all the way down to his throat. Then later, he begins to climb the pole that was erected for the opening of this weekend’s stronger men’s conference in Springfield, Missouri.
Now, one of the speakers who was there, Mark Driscoll, who was a mega church pastor himself. He’s got his own background stories. I’m not going to get into any of that. But, you know, he was somebody who really focused on maybe too much on male issues. But again, I’m not going to get into what was going on. They tried to make it about him. It wasn’t about him.
It was about what happened at this conference. And this is how he pushed back on it. And as he’s pushing, if you’re looking at the video feed, you can see in an inset some pictures of what this male stripper was doing to open this christian men’s conference. But let me do this. I’ve been up since 01:00 in the morning. The reason I’m hoarse is I have been praying for you and my heart is very burdened for you.
And I want to be very careful with this, and it’s not what I want to say, but the Jezebel spirit has already been here. The Jezebel spirit opened our vent. This is a rebuke and a correction of no one. This is an observation. Before the word of God was open, there was a platform. It was a high place. On it was a pole, an ashtray, the same thing that’s used in the strip club for women who have the Jezebel spirit to seduce men.
In front of that was a man who ripped his shirt off like a woman does in front of a pole at a strip club. That man then descended. See, our God is not arrogant. He doesn’t ascend. Or God is humble, he descends. And then he swallowed a sword. And Jesus cried, okay, Pastor John, I’ll receive that. Thank you. Wow. And that’s reaction. And everybody starts yelling, picking up signs on this.
And so you heard somebody say, you’re out of line, Mark. And then he says, and he keeps talking. He says, mark, and he says, okay, pastor John, I’ll receive that. You’re done. And the guy that’s yelling that is the, is also a pastor of James river church. His name is John Lindell, and he’s got a large church there. It’s like, you’re out. Get out of this conference type of thing.
And the people who sided with him said, well, Mark Driscoll, if he had a problem with it, he should have said something to him privately. I’m sorry. You didn’t bring, you didn’t do this privately. You did this publicly. So a lot of people there started yelling, bring him back, bring him back. And then Lindell got up to the mic. He said Mark was out of line. If Mark wanted to say that, he should have said it to me.
He didn’t. Matthew 18. If your brother offends you, you go to him privately. He didn’t do this privately. John Lindell did not do this privately. He did it publicly, and he’d be rebuked publicly for what he was doing there. He said, I talked to Mark for half an hour. There was not one word of that. He’s out of line. If he wants to say it, he can say it to me.
Well, he probably knows that if he said it to you privately, you wouldn’t let him get on there to say it publicly anyway. What do you think Jesus would do with this? Well, we know what he did to the money changers, don’t we? I think if he had done exactly what Jesus would, he would have made a cord of whips and he would have driven John Lindell out of that theater.
This conference, this men’s conference that he organized. Isn’t that pathetic? You see, that’s why we’re losing the culture, because we’ve lost Christ, we’ve lost our vision of what that is about. And again, these other people who are trying to make excuses for this attacked Mark Driscoll. I’m not here to defend Mark Driscoll or anything that he’s not, or to talk about it either. But the bottom line is that he said the right thing, the other guy said the wrong thing.
Let’s just leave it at that. In this particular instance, pyrotechnics, explosions and guys coming down ropes, and as they are selling this to everybody, and again, there’s nothing wrong with having fun like that, but that was not good, clean fun. So when we’ve got people who don’t know the right hand from the left, it’s no wonder that our kids that we’ve turned over to the government schools to raise don’t know whether they’re male or female.
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