Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Hmmmm...

(From Lark News)

Man's prophetic actions offer lifestyle of fun

GARDEN GROVE, Calif. — In May, Alan Barrett, 26, began performing prophetic acts to send messages from God to the church.
"My calling is like Ezekiel and Jeremiah's," he says, referring to prophets who acted out messages from God.
But Barrett's prophetic acts have afforded him a lifestyle of leisure, friends say. For example, he went to Disneyland "as a prophetic act to communicate that the church is living in a fantasy world," he said. While there, he interceded for the church on Peter Pan, Splash Mountain and various other rides.
He convinced his parents, with whom he still lives, to pay for a cruise to Mexico to indicate that "the church is adrift and must chart a godly course."
Back home Alan sits around his parents' house to indicate that the church is uninspired and lazy. He often drinks Starbucks Frappuccinos as a prophetic statement that God has "a sweet future" for the church, if people will repent. He goes to bed early as a prophetic act to say that "Christians are asleep on the job" of winning the lost.
For breakfast he demands that his mother buy him Lucky Charms, so he can warn the church that "many of their sermons are sugar-coated fluff," he says. He shares his prophetic insights during testimony time at church.
Alan's father says his son has "an unusually pleasant mission," and that he should get a job as a prophetic act that the church "must work harder and start paying its own bills."
But Alan's mother is happy to support God's work in Alan's life.
"I always knew he had a special calling," she says. •

18 comments:

  1. it is about time his dad gave him a prophetic message in the form a boot up the a.... and sent him packing into the real world.

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  2. hey rev, just looked at the lark news site, is it real or joke, this world of blogs and internet confuse me. what sort of world do we live in?

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  3. I hope not!

    I hope it's a send up, a joke to help us notice our foibles ---

    but, you are right, sometimes reality is very unreal!

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  4. he should live it up while he can. Not all fo us can be liek him. KR, it woudln't be prophetic if it was a boot.

    Whats a foibles?

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  5. hahaha - joke or not that's hilarious!

    i knoew i joined the wrong sort of mission agency!

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  6. and here all this time i thought that i had a prophetic ministry

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  7. I feel a prophetic ministry coming on...

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  8. that would explain the raisins...

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  9. Okay, so I looked at the site, and I'm still not convinced that it is or isn't a joke. Did you see their FAQs? They're all questions, but no answers.

    Most of it looks like a joke... but there are pieces of it that really make me wonder. Gah.

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  10. Okay... I take it back. The whole site is DEFINITELY a joke.

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  11. Haha ! I love it! Definitely a joke!

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  12. What are we breaking? Breaking things is fun!

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  13. we're breaking dboy's face? That would be sad. And painful. Plus, what would dbaby think about 'daddy' after birth? That's too scary. I say, let's leave dboy's face alone.

    Now, that doesn't mean you can't break his legs.

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