Mike Jones Visits Ted Haggard’s Church
I said they should thank him and they did.
After visiting Ted Haggard’s New Life church where he was warmly received, Mike Jones had an interesting observation.
Jones had been invited to New Life several times by church members since Haggard resigned as president of the National Association of Evangelicals and was fired from the church after admitting in November to “sexual immorality.”
Jones was accompanied Sunday by members of a New York- based theater troupe, the Civilians, who are in Colorado Springs researching a project on evangelicals. Church leaders were told in advance of the visit.
“A couple of ladies cried when they were touching me,” Jones said. “I was thanked for exposing the church, for helping Ted Haggard. A couple of them said they hoped I get God into my life. And they all said ‘God bless you,’ every one of them.”
But Jones - who came forward out of anger toward Haggard’s political stances against homosexuality - said he wasn’t impressed on the whole. If the Gospel message is enough, he said, why the loud music and MTV-quality production?
“There seems to be something missing, some realism, in my opinion, because it’s so vast, like some kind of self-contained city,” said Jones, who said he was raised Methodist but is estranged from organized religion.
The same article notes that Haggard and his wife have undergone counseling and are in a “restoration” program.
We’re all waiting for the announcement that Haggard has been cured.
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