Job 31:1 "I have made a covenant with my eyes; how then could I gaze at a virgin?
As the dust settles over the question if Carrie Prejean will keep her Miss California crown (yes, even when you are caught lying on your job application, you can keep your job), more has come to light about her.
Unfortunately many public "conservative" or "Christian" figures immediately jumped to Prejean's defense because of the ridicule she received by others for stating her opinion of traditional marriage, while ignoring the fact she was “dressed” in a way that can destroy marriages but causing men to lust. This wasn’t a problem for these "leaders". But as her modeling pictures surfaced (some were soft porn photos--- she wasn’t modeling for JC Penney’s catalogue ), those who voiced concern were vindicated.
Now it has come to light that Prejean, who is an attendee at The Rock is part of the JC 's Girls. Here is a news story on it, although she also said this in her interview at The Rock.
What is "JC's Girls"?
JC's Girls ("Jesus Christ's Girls") is a group of women who go out to strip clubs and porn conventions and prostitutes to tell people "Jesus loves" them without judging them. Their target audience is the "adult entertainment" industry, with an emphasis on, but not limited to, women. JC Girls proudly describe their "ministry" as "without condemnation" and call this "love". They invite these Adult Entertainers to " church" and support them and prays for them. There are various chapters of JC Girls around the country.
Sadly, they don't tell the women what they really need to hear: that they are under the wrath of God and in need of salvation, and that the Lord Jesus Christ is the only way, truth, and life, without Whom, they will not go to the Father. They are not told that they are violating God's laws and earning Hell. They are not told to repent of their sins. Its all acceptable according to JC'S Girls.
JC's Girls' founder Heather Veitch's stated goal is that Christians need their minds open to go out and into the strip joints and porn conventions, she contends. The "long term goal" of JC's is to open the churches up to these strippers and prostitutes and drunks.
JC's Girls don't require the women to leave the industry before joining JC's. Just come and "try out a relationship with God".
Scripture says otherwise:
Luk 14:26 "If anyone comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. 27 Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me cannot be my disciple. 28 For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it?... 33 So therefore, any one of you who does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.
Veitch's myspace blog is full of happiness at exposing her "church lady" friends to the strip scene and getting them comfortable (desensitized) to the adult entertainment industry and the strippers comfortable with "Christians".
"The ministry does not just focus on local strip clubs. They have even had an outreach to porn conventions and online. They don't put demands on people. All kinds of people come to Sandals Church and the growth comes from people who see that the church accepts strippers – the church gets homosexuals, men addicted to porn, etc. They like that the church is nonjudgmental. Heather cites that hosts from the radio show "stripper society" are the ministry's biggest fans- the sex industry feels like they are on their side."
Porn is a $56 billion dollar industry that is making more than the major networks. JC's Girls got a booth at the Las Vegas porn convention, which is the biggest industry trade show. They went to minister to girls at the convention by giving them a gift that would direct the girls to the JC's Girls booth. At the booth Heather and her group would give them Bibles wrapped in t-shirts that said 'Holy Hotties.'
Heather says Christians should not be judgmental of people in the sex industry like they are people that are less than others.
End quote.
So this is what Prejean has been involved with. This is hardly biblical or moral.
The Church Accomodating The World
A local body of believers assembled together in unity in Christ Jesus and worship of Him, is not the place for porn stars, strippers, drunks, and prostitutes. Bringing in blatant sinners who have not bowed to the lordship of the Lord as they continue in their "industry" is bringing in the polluted God-hating world into the Body of Christ. They expose the sheep of Christ to all manner of sexual sin and that cannot be tolerated. This is very dangerous for the men, teens, girls, marriages, and leaders. A little yeast leavens the whole loaf, God says (see how God deals harshly with sexually immoral “brothers” in 1Cor. 5, where there is a wall of distinction between the world and the churches). So much for church discipline as Christ commanded of His churches in Matt. 18---that would be too judgmental and demanding of what The Master commands.
When professing Christians accommodate the World, they always compromise Truth, Love, and purity of God and His Word.
Evangelism
Evangelism cannot be done pragmatically, otherwise it will be done in the flesh, not by the Holy Spirit (see 1Cor. 1-2 and Acts 2, for example). Christians are not to expose themselves to sexual immorality by walking into strip joints, buying lap dances in private booths (sans the dance, but no one on the floor knows that—the “evangelism” is done in secret), and attending porn conventions. What our eyes look upon matters to God. We can’t erase the images of many of these things. We are not to look like, nor fellowship with such darkness. Rom 16:19 For your obedience is known to all, so that I rejoice over you, but I want you to be wise as to what is good and innocent as to what is evil.
“innocent” = unmixed, pure, of the mind, without mixture of evil. Clearly exposing oneself to sexually immoral places of business violates this verse.
There IS a wall of separation between the Christian and the world.
1Co 6:9 Or do you not know that the unrighteous will not inherit the kingdom of God? Do not be deceived: neither the sexually immoral, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor men who practice homosexuality, 10 nor thieves, nor the greedy, nor drunkards, nor revilers, nor swindlers will inherit the kingdom of God. 11 And such were some of you. But you were washed, you were sanctified, you were justified in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ and by the Spirit of our God.
When Jesus proclaimed the Gospel to people, He did it plainly, boldly, and did not join in their frivolity ro carousing. He did not go to bars, brothels, or porn conventions. There’s absolutely no biblical foundation for such an accusation against Him in order to justify what many “Christians” do in order to get cozy with the sexually immoral drunks (and yes, even Veicht admits that many in the “Adult Entertainment” industry, including herself when she was in it, are often drunk). Jesus Christ calls people OUT of their sin and darkness. The Gospel of Jesus Christ is far different than this "non-judgmental" liberal junk being pawned off as the "Gospel". Like pornography, its a horrible, fake immitation of the real and abiding thing.
1Pe 4:3 For the time that is past suffices for doing what the Gentiles want to do, living in sensuality, passions, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and lawless idolatry. 4 With respect to this they are surprised when you do not join them in the same flood of debauchery, and they malign you; 5 but they will give account to him who is ready to judge the living and the dead.
Did Jesus eat at the homes of sinners? Yes. We know of one or two occassions. But that is not the same as buying a lap dance or watching topless women gyrate or sell their bodies for sex. He was perfectly above reproach—a standard that is demanded of those who are truly HIS (1Tim. 3:2;Titus 6,7;1John 1:6-7; Eph. 4:1;5:8; John 8:12; Col. 1:10; 1Thes. 2:12).This is why when asked what sin the Pharisees had over Him, they could not answer. He violated no OT law, no standard of God. Jesus is our standard of holiness and we see our constant need of the Holy Spirit to help us walk in a manner worthy of the calling. We need His grace to be conformed to the image of Christ Jesus. Most often, The Master taught in the synagogue, on hillsides, and in other places like boats, etc. Eating with a tax collector is not the same as going to a porn convention no matter how much you really want it to be.
The stated goal of JC's Girls is to lower the bar of excellence, holiness, and purity within the churches. This is a direct attack by the enemy. Scripture says,2Co 6:14 Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness?15 What accord has Christ with Belial? Or what portion does a believer share with an unbeliever? 16 What agreement has the temple of God with idols? For we are the temple of the living God; as God said, "I will make my dwelling among them and walk among them, and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. 17 Therefore go out from their midst, and be separate from them, says the Lord, and touch no unclean thing; then I will welcome you....
God will not tolerate the mixture of the two. We who are His, are IN the world but not OF the world. Matt. 18 commands the dealing of unrepenting brothers (sexual sin would qualify, nudity, etc. would qualify) by church discipline. If the person refuses to confess then leave his sin and walk in the ways of Jesus accordng to Scripture, he or she is to be excommunicated until he either repents or gets saved and then repents. God's name is at stake and therefore He demands purity in doctrine and practice. The sinner should be uncomfortable in the midst of believers because the light of Truth is exposing his or her sin (see John 3). If not, there's compromise going on, on the part of professing Christians.
The liberal "Christians" who claim God is love, are the first ones to hate the purity of God and His church. They excuse sin, they don't repent of it. They boldly lower the bar of God's HIGH standard. They infect churches with rebellion and impurity, calling it love, but its not biblical love at all. They make the churches as a social gathering place to practice non-descrimination policies of the world. But as Acts 5, 1Cor. 5, and 2Cor. 6 demonstrate, God indeed does discriminate against ungodliness. He struck down a husband and a wife for lying about the money they received when they sold a plot of land! Do you think God has changed in the last 2,000 years? Do you think He will be honored when His name is sullied?
Just as God said about the Jews, He can say about the “Christians” today:
Rom 2:24 For, as it is written, "The name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you."
2Pe 2:18 For, speaking loud boasts of folly, they entice by sensual passions of the flesh those who are barely escaping from those who live in error. 19 They promise them freedom, but they themselves are slaves of corruption. For whatever overcomes a person, to that he is enslaved.
When there’s no difference between “Christians” and the world, except for a higher self-esteem
or different life-management skills, or a job, then its time to examine yourselves to see if you are really in The Faith (having a mere form of godliness but denying the power). God draws a clear line between believers and unbelievers; light and darkness; the kingdom of darkness and the kingdom of His Son; of the flesh and of the Spirit; of the devil and of God.
Christians should proclaim the Gospel to all kinds of people including prostitutes and strippers and porn stars, as God opens up opportunities. But HE will not allow Christians do enter into sin to do so. There are a number of ways to evangelize the lost without getting into the mire of the world. But many find it far more exciting and almost rebelliously fun, like an adolescent who defies his parents’ rules, to go into such places and then justify doing so.
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