... unless she is a bad, naughty christian who hangs out on courtenay place in the weekends...

...'s are great ...you make courtenay place sound interesting... perhaps I should go check out these naughty christians next weekend...

that ronald james guy

coz

oh well then..
just simply coz of the fact that you were ripping my nz boys off.. what have they ever done to you?

oh come now, they don't insult the intelligence of the people they're aiming for now do they? a conniseur will always pick a gourmet meal over a hamburger, but a person that only knows hamburgers will probably stick to hamburgers.

yeh right on courtz...

all of you

telling it like it aint, hasnt been, and never will be dont you mean

...

im 14 thank you very much
and please change chanels immediately
is there a no. 6 yet?
idunno

typo, I meant to say 'WHO' is a Christian

it never ceases to amaze me the amount of boppers who jump online and start arguements about the smallest of things...entertaining but pointless.

actually acidess im twenty six and have a glorious life getting high all day playing video games getting plenty of action and playing kick ass rock shows under the influence of acid - yes remember acid acidess?

where as you you would rather defend pathetic christion losers
hahahahaha

//least convince the reporter to ask them some dignified questions
granted if they're just going to respond with platitudes then that defeats the whole purpose but..

it really was horrific heather
they were semi slam dancing and i was just crying
my soul is nearly broken
something must be done
if they are going to have christ rock it really should be the good stuff like stryper - they were great

"To hell! With that devil!"
-------- Stryper

Petra lol
i forgot all about them
they had those synths on guitar straps
really good

Never really got into Petra. I liked One Bad Pig.

zou tian wo xue xi ne ge. 250, ne ge er bai wo xiang sha zi hor sha gua.

how can they seriously act like that? It looks more like a cult than Christianity. Swaying back and forth, eyes closed with mandatory orgasmic expression. argh! Don't get me started with those awful songs.

I think it's really bad representation of Christians.

//Who are they hurting by sharing what they believe?

THEY ARE HURTING MY FUCKING EARS!

You guys have seriously take the cake for being the biggest bunch of wombats! How pathetic and ignorant can you be? It's pretty clear to see that the majority of you where brought up in good little church going Chritstian homes where you were forced to go to church in your itchy sunday sweater.....and over the years your anger against the world and "Christians" has metamorphosised into a fear. It's pretty obvious to me that you guys have built up a fear of christians from previous experiences. The images you saw, "is the reality" of church today. People go to church for choice, because they beleive in a higher power. I should hope also that they dont care what other people think, it's something between them and god and their relationship. Something that allot of people like yourselves can easily critisize from the outside. Maybe take a look at your own life and what you believe. Are you just attacking christians because your scared yourself? Angry at these people who believe in something you dont know about? Noone can force it on you to beleive, but how about a bt of reect for those who do? Who are they hurting by sharing what they believe? From your comments, they obviously hurt you.......take a look at why your so angry at these people who beleive n a god, before going on a rampant of ridicule and saying things you know nothing about. News flash, CHURCH ISNT ABOUT SITTING ON HARD PEWS AND BEING BORED OUT OF YOU BRAIN! It's about a faith in someone higher than us. How bout some repect and less naievety. chur

Sorry, I've said it before but I can't resist. First: I made my peace with the church about three years ago, but the reasons I stopped being a christian were nothing to do with their faith in a higher power. I absolutely believed in everything I learned in the church and I absolutely still do. I imagine that most of the criticism levelled at the church in this thread has little to do with faith.

My issue is this; Christians already get bad enough press with hyperconservatives like Tamaki and Walton trying to promote their very narrow view of the Christian Contemporary Lifestyle (tm), and now I've watched an article in which a bunch of young people with a strong secular following are aligning themselves with a very skewed version of what the church is. That kind of church appeals only to a narrow demographic, and I think the idea that that's what churches are like is going to turn people off.

It also reminds me of one of the things I really didn't like about the pentecostal church - all the emotional hype. For years, if I was depressed at a church service I thought there was something horribly wrong with me. I wasn't the only one - there's a lot of teenagers and 20-somethings that still mistake an emotional high for a spiritual experience.

Anyway...the piece was a nice idea in theory, but I can imagine it was executed by a young pentecostal who's all enthusiasm with rather less spiritual or emotional maturity. Ronald James is absolutely right in saying it's about 16 years out of date. Yes, they were showing that part of the church as it really is, but The Church is, and could be, so much more.