The Harlem RANT! Okay fair warning here, I'm about to rant. What in Hell ( and I mean that literally) is going on with some of our American churches these days? Understand first off that I am in no way a prudish holy roller who doesn't approve of having a fun time. Personally I LOVE to listen and dance to music, especially live music, with Country and also Blues being my all time faves; both whom have plenty of gyrating and shaking in their moves...but never, ever, would I expect Christian churches to not only allow, but encourage, something so blatantly secular within their walls. Not only that, but to incorporate masks and helmets in church does not borderline on Paganism, it IS Paganism. Is this some new thought that the Holy Spirit is somehow outdated? That God needs to "get with the times"? There is a thing called Reverence...definition: feelings of deep respect or devotion. These churches have lost all definition of this term. ****City Church Downtown features the video prominently on the home page of their church website, as it begins with a helmeted individual dancing in the aisle while the pastor is preaching a sermon. It then cuts to the entire congregation dancing in party style, and some standing on their chairs while the strobe lights flash. C3 Church in Australia even recorded a “Harlem Shake” video while reenacting Jesus’ death on the cross. –Article on Google**** Pastor Gabriel Swaggart said recently "It saddens me deeply seeing the nonsense that is going on the Church today. With the leadership of the Church heading in the wrong direction, allowing the stupidity of the "Harlem Shake," the playing of secular music from behind our pulpits, the Church has resorted to an all out flesh party. There is no Fear of God in the Church today. How can we say that the foolishness of the "Harlem Shake" is Godly? Can you actually tell me that God is pleased with this? Do you actually believe that Our God, Who is Holy, is pleased with that junk? No! Emphatically, He is not pleased with the nonsense that is being allowed in our Youth Groups today. This may rub some of you the wrong way, but the fact is, what I'm about to say is the Truth. I seriously doubt and question the Salvation of the Youth Pastors that allow this garbage in their Youth Groups. Now some of you may say, "Pastor Gabe, you are not supposed to judge someone else." We are not to judge the heart of the individual, but we ARE to judge the motives of the individual. Jesus Himself said that a bad tree cannot bring forth good fruit, and if the tree produces bad fruit, it is to be cut down and cast into the fire (Matt. 3:10). We are to judge the motives of the individual, and if that person claims to be Saved, and yet there is no fruit, we have to come to the conclusion that the individual is not Saved. As a Minister of the Gospel, we are the "watchmen that stands on the top of the wall to sound the alarm" to the people that danger in imminent! We are supposed to warn the people and to expose the danger that is ahead, and in the Church today. Satan is not just trying to sway the Church anymore, for the most part, he is standing behind the pulpit! We must understand that when we allow this garbage in the Church, we have just pushed out the Moving and the Operation of the Holy Spirit. No one, and I mean no one, can be Saved, Healed, Delivered, Baptized with the Holy Spirit with the Harlem Shake! The only way for man to be Saved is through the Preaching of the Gospel. The only way for man to be delivered is through the Finished Work of Christ! These so-called youth pastors will have to stand before God and give an account for the things that they did and did not do. But even though much of the Modern Church is allowing this garbage to go on under their watch, we at Crossfire will continue to sound the alarm to the people, to point out the foolishness that has corrupted the Church. Will we be hated? Yes. Will we be lambasted? Yes. Will we be made fun of? Yes. But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord!!!"- GS*** Pastors and leaders better wake up! Whether you're scared to admit it or not, we are spiraling head first towards the last days; we are overwhelming fulfilling Isaiah 5:20 "Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter" with every daily newscast...and now our so called Christian churches are flinging the doors wide open for the same philosophy. Satan is having a party and we are R.S.V.P.ing as fast as we can. Warned you it was a rant and I dare you to repost this.