Couch Surfing - Where Do Most Dwellars Live?

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Not my sis going to see him - my sister in law.
She has no religion that I know of, which makes it all the more bizarre. We do not need another God-botherer in our family, least of all one of the wishy-washy ones that confuse coincidence with divine intervention and occasional good luck for God's will. I'm also annoyed by his "stand" on homosexuality. No, it's not enough to me to have it downgraded. He does not preach directly from the scriptures so why can't he just drop that idea altogether. If he had the guts to say, "God made them the way they are and loves them just the same" I might have a bit more respect for him.

But at the beginning of each sermon he says, "Hold up your Bible, let's say it like we mean it...
This is my Bible
I am what it says I am
I have what it says I have
I can do what it says I can do
Today I will be taught the word of God
I boldly confess, my mind is alert
My heart is receptive
I will never be the same
I am about to receive
The incorruptible, the indestructible, everliving seed
Of the word of God
I'll never be the same"

Yes I know it's never going to appeal to me as an atheist, but it also doesn't fit in with his preaching style, or his ducking of the question on homosexuality. It gives no indication that he is happy to ignore Leviticus, that he doesn't set much store in Jesus' command to leave all you own and follow me, that apparently God rewards the good on earth and that for true believers God is happy to meddle in all sorts of things.

An example of his preaching. Don't get cross when things go wrong. Sometimes God has set it up to help you or someone else. His wife lost her credit card. She phoned to cancel it. The women in the call centre was intending to leave her husband that day. She recognised her preacher's wife's name and they ended up on the phone for 30 minutes after which the employee decided to give her mariiage another go. When she put down the phone the wife found her credit card wasn't lost at all - it was just underneath her bag! Pesky God. It was obviously necessary to save the fragile marriage of a call centre employee with this trick. And I guess she would need a husband once the extra long call was played back for training pruposes, because she'd have lost her job.

Does make me wonder why God doesn't worry about saving all the other marriages out there that fail. Perhaps they are not good enough people? Like when God saves some people from dying because other people pray so hard for them, but sometimes He decides to call them home. Irregardless Maybe the people he saves ae less interesting.