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News of the weird and strange alert! A Columbian heavy metal church is just fine, sure, whatever, but the breathlessness of this Reuters report on it is funny. Alice Cooper would be right at home here!:
“The rosaries are made of chains and the Bibles are covered in denim, and alms are delivered in a box with a dagger on the top.” Oooh, not scary denim! Also, this is a poor person who just got a box of alms with a dagger on top from this church: “Um, thanks…I guess.”
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“Christian Gonzalez is its founder, pastor, and drummer.”
Bwahaha!
Almost as great as the heavy metal monk.
I am a youth minister, and I meet my teens where they are coming from. I have been to huge number of seriously Godly Christian heavy metal events in the US. You should not mock how people choose to worship God. Pastor Christian Gonzalez, makes the point that Jesus hung out and accepted those in His society that where considered outcasts. Dude thats you, me and everyone on the planet who might seem totally different what we would expect. When Christ reached out to people in His day, they did not look like what they’re society thought they should be like, but He envited them none the less to accept them, and gave them the one thing that would change they’re life, HIM!!! He showed love to them, regardless of what the religious people of the day said, or even His own disciples, and he hung out with them. The crippled begger, the postitute, the demon possessed, and even the hated tax collector where some of the people he chose to take time for. Do not put God in a box. There are cowboy churches, biker churches, Hip Hop Church, and even grandma’s church too.Who are you to laugh at what God is doing. Your cousin Joe might be hooked on drugs and this might be the only way God can reach him. I know ministries who go into the most unlikely places, ministering to prostitutes and strip joints, the homeless, gang bangers, truck drivers, all to help those who are trapped in a lie. So please know that I send this to you in love, I am thankful to you for making Jesus famous through your ignorance. God will even use this, many may laugh, but God will use it for His glory and bring those long haired metalers to Christ because of it.