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Judgment day

By Ted Haggard

From an email sent on May 10 by Ted Haggard, the pastor of New Life Church, to members and supporters of the church. Soon after the email was sent, members of the church were featured on NBC’s Dateline and an ABC special with Barbara Walters.

I wanted you to see this email about some upcoming media attention so you can help me. Why? Because it indicates the importance of all of our doing a good job. The Lord has sovereignly placed all of us, as a congregation, in a position where we are representing born-again, Bible-believing Christians to groups outside our normal spheres of influence. Here are a few tips:

1. If a camera is on you during a worship service, worship; don’t dance, jump, etc. Secular people watching TV are touched by authentic worship, but jumping and dancing in church looks too bizarre for most to relate to. Remember, people watching TV news are not experiencing what you are experiencing. They are watching and thinking. Worship indicates sincerity, dancing and jumping looks like excessive emotionalism.

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SEE ALSO: Church and the press; Church etiquette; Colorado; Colorado Springs; New Life Church (Colorado Springs, Colo.)

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