Rich Mullins Concert Part #5

It's too bad a segment got edited out during his schpiel just before minute 9. He had a good message going.

Isn't odd, that Rich can stand up to the evangelicals, specifically "prosperity gospel" preachers (who have stacks of scriptures and millions of followers.) and destroy their notions about money, possessions, and family, saying "they are not bad. They are just wrong."

Yes. Wearing jeans and a t-shirt, barefoot.

I thought the joke was pretty funny. At the risk of over-explaining. Karl Barth was a famous theologian who was pointing out the perseverence of the Jews (presumably due to the faithfulness of God) as compared to the Hittites, a Biblical people now long gone, passed, as a distinct culture, into the sands of time.

6:10 sorry, who can explain the joke?
the thing is I did not understand WHO was asked why he believed in God and WHAT he replied after being asked 'why because of Jews?'

"what land have we ever been in that is not foreign" profound

isnt it kind of eerie to hear Rich talking about death so much in this segment, how he said if you die in your single it really doesnt matter. I think all of us who were not blessed to see Rich live might disagree.

It is a little odd how we can watch this clip--in which Rich denounces "proof-texting," saying that "God is right, and the rest of us are just guessing"--yet both webstercat and exodus21v20 can get into an argument based on proof-texting. You'll never fully understand or justify the mind of God through a purely scientific method.

By the way, how about that incredibly uncomfortable applause after the eighth minute? Sounds like there are some serious insecurities floating through that audience.

There's two ways to think about verses like this:

If two men are fighting and the wife of one of them comes to rescue her husband from his assailant, and she reaches out and seizes him by his private parts, you shall cut off her hand. Show her no pity. [Deut. 25:11-12]

The Christian (and Rich's) is that god inspired these verses.

The logical way to think about them is they are the product of a bronze-age patriarchal society that invented a god named Yahweh and put these words on his lips.