Comments on: Where I’ve Been Spending Some Time

By: For Those Who Have Tracked Lakeland With Me « Cracked Virtue

For Those Who Have Tracked Lakeland With Me « Cracked Virtue — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 00:29:16 +0000

[...] I’ve been watching unfold that has broken my heart, shocked me, etc. You can check that out here. I know some of you aren’t interested but a few of you are. For those that are, there’s [...]

By: brianmpei

brianmpei — Thu, 31 Jul 2008 19:22:04 +0000

Hey GMac – your easily the best looking commentator I’ve had stop by! There’s more sizzle on the way from what I’m hearing so we’d better all fasten our seatbelts or at least put on a real helmet!

By: Greggmac

Greggmac — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 16:17:28 +0000

Hey Brian,
Thanks for having the courage of your convictions. I would like to add myself to the list of heretics who find this stuff unbelievable. It is reducing the Gospel to a sideshow and is a sad and tragic thing that so many prefer sizzle over substance. Maybe we have all gone to too many movies where suspending disbelief is a requirement to enjoy the “show”.

By: brianmpei

brianmpei — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 19:02:02 +0000

Welcome back Tim! Jump in any time!

By: Tim Stark

Tim Stark — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:56:40 +0000

I’m jumping in way late here (my long summer roadtrip was blessedly internet-less … trying to get caught up), but, “back in the day,” Phil Keaggy was convinced by someone “with a word” (a local fellowship “pastor” like the one you describe who found the couple’s “sin” in their bank account) that God had told him (and other “leaders” of their “fellowship”) that Phil should stop recording his own music (and/or playing guitar altogether? circa 1973-ish?) … horrible and true, and he rolled with it until 1976-ish. What a loss (that God can bless Joel 2:25-style, of course).

This stuff just keeps going on, and there’s no way to say that Keaggy was “dumb” to listen to this “wisdom.” He was just doing the best he knew to do, and, if I can pretend to be more gracious than I actually am in real life, I could say the same about his “pastors” who so brazenly misled him.

More often, I get stuck on the idea that there is a “special” place on one of the seven circles of not-heaven for “fleecers” like these who do “ministry” Ezekiel 34-style …

By: brianmpei

brianmpei — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 01:32:51 +0000

Give me a call Sparrow when your husbands out of the strawberry patch and we’ll break bread together!

By: Islandsparrow

Islandsparrow — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 12:28:08 +0000

Hey Brian – let’s remember not to call in CNN – or GodTV for that matter.

and let’s get together for lunch.

By: brianmpei

brianmpei — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:12:23 +0000

Thanks for the blessing Yves, I need all I can get! I’m ready to dine when you are!

By: Yves

Yves — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:19:12 +0000

Great post Brian. I don’t think you’re on crazy pills… but I think some others likely are.

Someday my friend, I will buy you a meal and we will dine!

Bless you my friend!

By: Michelle Hixson

Michelle Hixson — Mon, 14 Jul 2008 13:55:39 +0000

OOps.. sorry Brian.. didn’t mean to steal your talk Not prophetic.. wouldn’t say that.. just been trudging in the places of brokenness and learning what Leadership and Servanthood ISN’T.. Thankfully, I’ve been provided with a lot of bad examples.. I say thankfully because now I know what it’s NOT tee hee.. On the flip side, I’ve also been so blessed with men & women who do serve, and do lay down their lives every day for Him.. and I am blessed in the process. Such a sweet exchange when we die, and He lives.