{"id":23,"date":"2010-07-16T12:45:25","date_gmt":"2010-07-16T12:45:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.johann-rousselot.com\/fr\/?p=23"},"modified":"2020-08-11T13:04:16","modified_gmt":"2020-08-11T07:34:16","slug":"born-again-christian-evangelicals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.johann-rousselot.com\/en\/born-again-christian-evangelicals\/","title":{"rendered":"Mad about Jesus"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The New Life Church<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Colorado Springs is a peaceful and conservative town of 300 000 inhabitants, located at the foot of the Rocky Mountains. It is also a sort of \u201cVatican for the Evangelicals\u201d : over a hundred Christian evangelical and\/or evangelistic associations have set up their main office in Colorado Springs, thanks to attractive tax policy. In 1984, pastor Ted Haggard settled in the city, at the time renowned for its hippies, bikers and others of the kind\u2026He experienced visions, praying and fasting - became a pioneer, aroused by an unshakeable faith in his mission: bring back the Gospel into this city, chasing away evil cults ( such as hippies ! ).
Pastor Ted's New Life Church of Colorado Springs is one of the most important evangelical congregations of the country (a megachurch of approximatly 11.000 members). A congregation becoming very influential in the USA because of its modern ways, adapted to nowadays religious needs and behaviours. New Life Church is turned towards young people \u2013 the essential leaven of changeover (all evangelical congregations own their \u201cYouth Ministry\") - aware of the importance of preparing future generations on a biblical basis. Moreover, Ted Haggard is head of the NAE ( National Association of Evangelicals ), the powerful Christian lobby of the \u201cBorn Again Christians\u201d, of which president W. Bush is extremely dependant.
Is it a sign or pure chance ? Five days before the Bush administration actually looses its political domination on the Congress and Senate during the midterm elections, pastor Ted Haggard, close to President W. Bush on religious and moral issues, was falling from his pulpit because of a drug and sex scandal. \u00ab In the first week of November this year Mike Jones, a former male prostitute in Denver, came forward to claim he\u2019d had a three-year sexual relationship with Haggard, a vocal critic of gay rights. Married with five children, Haggard initially denied even knowing Jones. But then Jones produced recordings of a voice that sounded like Haggard\u2019s asking Jones to help him secure some crystal meth. (\u2026) New Life\u2019s Board of Overseers had determined Haggard was guilty of \"sexually immoral conduct\" and dismissed him as a pastor of the church \u00bb - (Newsweek November 13, 2006).
On the church\u2019s website, one can now find a letter of excuse and repentance from the fallen pastor who admits his fault, his \"monstrous sin\".<\/pre>\n\n\n
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