What’s the problem?! Don’t you know that deception is status quo in this corner of Christendom?! It didn’t take a prophet to see through this scheme. God help the children.

In England I see quite a lot of church officers in small and medium size churches spend energy promoting brand names, associations or “streams” (and back slapping) and not Jesus in our lives.

Michael in UK,

Really? Can you give me an example or two? The Anglican church I go to in Hampshire is clearly missing this trend.

This is becoming far too common-place and no longer raises the eyebrows that it once did (and should continue to do)

Second thought – a wedding registry for the re-married couple should be no surprise. Pete has long ago demonstrated that he has no sense of shame.

I bet their vows included the words “‘…For as long as we both shall live” and no one thought twice about it.

Michael in UK: In England I see quite a lot of church officers in small and medium size churches spend energy promoting brand names, associations or “streams” (and back slapping) and not Jesus in our lives.

Oh, there’s a pandemic of that in the U.S.!! A big-time outbreak of brands and back slapping here, too! The authority and influence of Christ is waning in the American church.

Tacky is the nice word. Chutzpah is another word that I think is appropriate when a “pastor” and his cutie pie want other Christians to buy them gifts to celebrate breaking vows and hearts. Emily Post’s book might be an appropriate gift, since Jordyn apparently did not receive one as a teen. Once upon a time when young people had raisin’s, it was not uncommon for young women to receive a copy, desired or not.

Burwell: Pete has long ago demonstrated that he has no sense of shame.

Neither did Hybels, Driscoll, MacDonald, etc. etc. Some corners of the American church is a mess! Actors would have no stage if they didn’t have an audience willing to buy tickets to the show.

Burwell: I bet their vows included the words “‘…For as long as we both shall live” and no one thought twice about it.

Yep. Both times.

Oops, Love…. not Loce!

Nancy2(aka Kevlar): If I thought it wasn’t too classy for them I’d just tell ‘em to drink moonshine out of a mason jar.

It’s a good bet that Kentuckians brought the art of moonshinin’ to Wisconsin:

http://www.elliottcountyhistoricalsociety.org/kentucky-to-wisconsin

So, looking at the pictures of the couple, it looks like Pete left his wife for a younger woman. How original.

And if you are going to break up your family and then have the chutzpah to start a bridal registry, you could at least do it at a place where the gifts are less expensive. What’s wrong with Target or Wal-Mart?

Joking aside, these people have no shame. The only way stuff like this stops is for people to stop following them. But somehow, these folks and others, such as Tullian and Driscoll, are for some reason always able to get a new audience.

Romans 12:19 NIV
Do not take revenge, my dear friends, but leave room for God’s wrath, for it is written: “It is mine to avenge; I will repay ,” says the Lord.

As much as I would like to see false christians or prophets punished, we have to remember that is not our place. While Pete was still at Crosspoint, we drank the “Pete” KoolAid, with his classes and bible studies availae online. It is very disheartening to see the Path he chose, which really dismisses his teachings in the past, which we based some of our bible study teaching.

Max,

You got it Max, “Money for nothin’ and your chicks for free…”