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"My Mom is VERY wrapped up in his teachings. This concerns me."

Question/Comment:

----- Original Message -----
From: Name and Address Withheld
To: reborn@oraclesofgod.org  (Paul Stringini)
Sent: Monday, March 09, 2009 1:52 AM
Subject: Shepards Chapel

Hi, how are you doing today? Was just reading up on your info. about the Chapel. I must confess that I have watched this guy strictly out of curiosity. I have always had issues with tele-evangelists, but I gave him the exception due to his lack of begging for money and teaching word for word, and the fact that my Mom is VERY wrapped up in his teachings. This concerns me. She is diving deep into everything he teaches. Now - I am just the concerned, church drop out son, but I have some real mixed feelings and vibes about some of these 'unusual' teachings that Murray initiates. Without going into great detail about my own personal experiences, I must say that I have had a reasonable amount of dealings in the past with some very confused people and very confusing doctrines. These things, along with the lukewarmness of mainstream church drove out my desire to ever attend the local churches again. My wife and I were young, very dedicated to the ministry, and very dedicated to serving God and our church. At one time we had a group that strongly embraced some of these 'Murray' type doctrines; the one that stood out the most?  The "serpent seed doctrine"...I appreciate your website and it's information. I try to be as open minded as possible when analyzing both sides of an issue, and you have provided some very good evidence in this particular quest. Blessings to you and your family.
 
Your  friend,
 XXX XXXXX

My First Response:edits in maroon and in ( ), as in: (this is an example of an edit)

----- Original Message -----
From: Paul Stringini
To: xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: Wednesday, March 18, 2009 1:12 AM
Subject: Re: Shepards Chapel

Hi Jon,
Thank you, for your kind letter.  I know where you are coming from.  Mainstream churches are boring and there is this need in many people for something more exciting, on the one hand you get these contemporary "Wharehouse Churches" as I call them, with their coffee shops and please-everybody preaching and then you get the people who go after exotic doctrines like "serpent seed".  I think that because everything else is so lame that people open up to all kinds of unsound ideas, it is the old "itching ears" thing, people want to hear scandalous and exciting things.  The biggest scandal of all is that people totally miss out on what Jesus came to do and which I became a Christian for, to radically alter our lives.
 
Thanks again,
Sincerely,
Paul

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