So many, too many, sermons are preached somewhere from la-la land - uh, could be one reason why my girlfriend's boyfriend walked away from enforced sunday and wednesday church attendance, as soon as he reached early adulthood. Btw, he knows Scripture after Scripture. You start a Scripture? He can finish it. And he's been so done with it, for so long.
Anyway, yeah the sermon starts off with about four hymns. Pastor Cooley - who preaches from a real church, made of real building materials - has a thing about music. He was once into rock - which he wants no parts off that rubbish (yay Cooley) - and feels led by the Lord to start off with some Godly music.
About ten minutes into the recording, the sermon starts. Christian or not christian, when you're messed over, it takes a long time - if not a lifetime - to get over the mistrust...of everybody, the cynicism, the critical spirit, the anger, the general mental trauma.
Most preachers will not touch this area. This same area, where most people have either been or will be - atleast once in their lives. Most preachers think that, because we don't live in china or iran, we're just nothing but spoiled rich kids, who have no problems, and who should (just shut up and) put 20% in the plate - not just 10%, before taxes. And, Jack, you don't really need to stop at qwik-way each morning for that coffee - that's about $10 weekly, $40 monthly, $520 yearly. Yes, i did hear a sermon telling people, they don't need their morning coffee...dem hedonists.
In short, for-real preaching that helps for-real people, is rare.
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ReplyDeleteFive Hundred Pound PeepDecember 11, 2020 at 7:45 PM
ReplyDeleteChristianity has no interest in realness. Why do you think I am gone? I wrote articles on my Christian conspiracy and bible prophecy blog for years about how the religious right didn't care about the poor. The friendships were fake and inauthentic. Everything was about complicance and control. They ostracized me for not having the white picket fence life style with legions of homeschooled children. No family, you don't belong. Disabled, you don't belong.
Now I think people who tell others don't be angry, don't be cynical, don't have negative emotions, smile for the cult, just want people to shut up and sit down and accept injustice. You see the activist part of me that wasn't passive didn't mix well with Christianity. I wanted to think, question and stand up for things. I couldn't be a smiling slave for the "Lord" and his dead inside people. I'm glad I got out before they started spreading plague with no empathy.
I think you are unhappy, I see the same things I worried about on the edges of some of your thoughts. Maybe you are realizing a lot of it's not adding up. If none of the preachers any good maybe somethings wrong with the religion.
If a real man taught a few decent teachings 2,000 years ago I don't think he was going for blood sacrifices and empire and dominance and control because all those things contradict.
Dear Peeps, what i still cannot (and probably never will) get my head around is: wow! things really haven't changed since Jeremiah's time.
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