The Jerusalem Diet
Sally, my beloved housemate and the somewhat zany friend of mine who has been making provactive comments on the prevous blog, put me onto the fact that Ted Haggart had writtten a book about dieting called the Jerusalem Diet. There are now some pretty funny customer reviews appearing on the amazon website. Check it out here.
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ubelievable has he written a christian book about diets (funny for a dane to read)
But also a sad thing to read the comments - the guy has messed his life up - and now people think they have have earned the right to put dirt in his face
Agreed Henrik. I think it’s sad that people have to pile on like this. Obviously Brother Russell has waaaay too much free time on his hands to spend writing all those reviews on Amazon.
A little FYI…The book itself has nothing to do with Jerusalem other than the fact that Haggard was in Jerusalem when he came up with the ideas he shared in the book. He also had a medical doctor look over the manuscript of the book before it was published. It’s not a Christian diet per se other than Haggard wrote it and actually, the concepts shared were pretty good. I’ve known people here in Colorado who’ve benefitted from trying the ideas he shared in the book.
Another FYI…Haggard actually didn’t want to write this book. For a while, he had made the basics available to his congregation for free in handouts he gave to them. That’s how I first heard about this and how I received a copy of the book. He was pursued by many folks to put the handouts in book form and make it available nationally.
It’s a shame what his bad decisions have done to affect not only his life but countless others.
Insulting, demeaning, but unavoidably funny. People really put some work into those reviews!
Alan: You may or may not remember me, but I’m a bartender at the California Pizza Kitchen across from Fuller Seminary. We had the opportunity to meet a couple of weeks ago, and I’ve been kicking myself ever since for not asking the toughest questions that have raddled my brain since reading “The Shaping of Things to Come” a couple years ago. You’re a busy man, I know, but if you get a chance to e-mail me (you should have the address from this post), the wine’s on the house the next time you’re in!
Henrik, its true that he messed his life up, but what makes that he did reprehensible, is that he has been a moral crusader for years while he was indulging in immorality all the time. This is the worst type of hipocrisy. Surely people who struggle ought to exhibit grace and mercy to others. But to moralize while you yourself do what you are moralizig about means that he probably deserves wht he is now getting. Much better to be gracious (kinda like Jesus) that be like the pharisee.
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Im not defending him, Im just shocked - that he did it - and reading some of the reaction
It really made me thinking about my own life, accountability, ministry and the leaders who are following me - whats our model? - that we will not end up the same way?
so… what Im saying is that I think 1) its wrong what he did, and its important that it got into the light 2) I hope it makes us all evaluate our self, our relations, way of praxis etc. 3) instead of mocking this guy - he is all ready down
By the way Alan - Im looking forward for your visit to denmark in januar 07 - I hope we can get some of the people from our emerging-network in Denmark together with you
mr hirsch remarked, “he probably deserves wht (sic) he is now getting”
i’m with henrik… the global anti-christ movement does a good enough job of piling shite on christ and his church and its mis-representatives without the bride joining in. that doesn’t mean we don’t discuss and we don’t learn lessons from it, just that we do it without pontificating self-justification…
the good lord suggested if someone causes you grief, front up to them and have it out, if that has no impact take a couple of other good folks along, if that doesn’t work take it to the ecclesia and have the assembled believers made aware of it… funny enough no mention in jesus teaching of taking it to the public marketplace or the jerusalem daily tribune!
i suspect i have only so many years, months, days, minutes to make the most of this life. i have only so much energy allocated, before this mortal shell breathes its last… i prefer to engage my energies in building his kingdom rather than digging graves and shovelling shite. there’s too many splinter groups and not enough log removing for my liking… i’m even reflecting in my mirror as i make the suggestion!
for any person in leadership these kind of public moral failures should cause us to reflect upon the significance of our own lives, to people around us. get around people we are genuinely accountable to, not just some namby, pamby bless me club, but people who will check if we’re alt- tabbing between this blog and some crap that debases humanity and putrifies the mind
it’s all too easy to kick people when they’re down and it’s interesting to consider that, from lessons in history, statistically some of those making loud noises will themselves be “defrocked” in the future…
personally its good to avoid getting into the frock in the first place, but, once there, it’s good to begin with examining your own heart - after you’ve dealt with your own crap, you’re less likely to want to expose anyone else’s mire!
a celtic son
I agree with Alan, the hypocracy that has been exposed is attrocious, and failing to call a spade a spade just takes the whole movement down with it.
not so long ago i was in on a course which included a minister from a spiritualist church, who promoted various practices the bible says are not kosher, a professing psychic, some holistic healers - a couple of whom identified themselves as proudly homosexual - and a bunch of people who, in their lives, had been disenfranchised from the established church. they were less than impressed to discover that i was a practicing church minister - the only professing christian among a group of about 20. i had the privelege of getting to feel what it was like to be on the outer, to be judged on the basis of stereotyped responses.
over lunch one of the group, seated at another table, declared loudly - “the church is just full of hypocrites.” in response i declared loudly… “you are absolutely right!” silence was the loud reply. in a quieter voice i expressed the sentiment that if the hypocrites of the world cannot find welcome in the church then the church is simply not being the church!
hypocrisy is a disease which affects all humanity… i have yet to meet a person who at some point doesn’t do something that doesn’t match up to their own ideal beliefs about themselves… it is far too easy to jump on the judgement train when the hypocrisy of others is exposed… what happened to the grace of christ?
i hope that there are gracious people around to support mr hirsch and mr stone when their actions don’t quite match their words… i know that i need it - and on a regular basis
a hypocrite in recovery…