Five years, and how many air miles?

The preeeacher who got caught keeping company with a woman not his wife, evidently had plenty of free time on his hands.  He was evidently racking up air miles, by himself (???)  While his wife-appliance remained home. 

Not surprised.

Oh, did he get to tour Greece, Rome, Scotland and England?  Ya know, places his wife-appliance would love to see, but probably never will.  Happens.    Talk to secular Kay, her secular husband went abroad to various places, on business; while trad-wife she was stuck in the kitchen and in the laundry - with the other appliances.

The wife-appliance of another preacher was left at home, with yet another newly made arrow to the quiver.  What a time for daDUH to go jaunting off - the newborn was like one, then there was a two or three year old, and a five or six year old; that is, multiple young children.  Kids don't sit still for one minute - bet wife-appliance is usually down to her last wire.  

Had to about laugh at the invalidating response he had made to a woman, who called him on his holy-jetsetting b.s.  He told the woman, she  didn't have her heart right.  Puhleeze :/

Now, here's the skinny on my pastor.  He travels - to a conference, here and there, some 50 miles down the road.  Just for a day, or maybe overnight, at a motel 6.  About thrice a year, he and his wife go out of town for about a weekend.  Every church has a joe-th'janitor who tithes his 10% off the top.  Poor Joe's hard-earned money is going for things like equipping missionaries, enabling a certain saint who risks his neck to get Bibles to people who are not able to buy them at the local bookseller - in some countries, they throw you in a nasty jail for merely printing and distributing Bibles. 

Yep, there's guys in the pulpit who are there for vanity.  And then, there's the for-real Pastors.

Sir, do you have to make that "narrow way" even narrower?

Per last post, hearing him preach, did i just hear the snapping in half of a bruised reed?   And did i hear the turning around, and shuffling away of someone who had been approaching that strait gate?  Can't help but to wonder, if there are actually  preachers out there, who only want a certain very, very, very, very few people to come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ - while the rest of us, can go ... roast forever.  

Evidently that happens (not because susie got her toes crunched), because, a few verses prior to Matthew 23:13 - where a clique of spiritual snobs are keeping joe-th'-janitor from entering - Matthew 23:4 describes people being weighted down with heavy burdens, and not getting one iota of help.   

More than once, he - and some others - have about mocked at the most of us (saved or lost) who don't want to suffer in this life - like what!! are we supposed to be into ... some sort of spiritual masochism???  Ew.  It's like these guys forget, there's no point in giving away one's savings to missions, (more like, preeecher-creature's va-ca fund) if the giving, or whaever other work, is done in the flesh.  

Many of us (saved or lost) regular schmos are thankful for the temporal blessings of a decent home, a car that runs, a job that pays enough to maintain, not only health insurance, but even a modest savings account.  In another sermon, he was going on about homeowner's and life insurance being barriers to faith and prayer.  Came off as guilt-tripping (weaker) brethren  into "denying oneself," but in REALITY doing so in the mere flesh; what?  God's too clueless to know who's brownnosing, and who's for real?

And, by the way, isn't the Bible big on personal accountability?  These financial products are things which responsible people fund, in order to help safeguard their families from falling into debt.  Are there not already more than enough impoverished people?  Shelters are full, winter is coming; why carelessly add to the waiting list. 

And no, i am not accusing this preacher of being a wolf - simply because: hireling types are very very unlikely to remind their listeners (about every other sermon) to "go get your King James Bible..."  This preacher is a human being, and we humans are known to be in error - hence his reminder: "Put me on pause, and read for yourself."  

"A bruised reed shall he not break, and the smoking flax shall he not quench: he shall bring forth judgment unto truth."  Isaiah 42:3

"Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it."  Matthew 7:14

"For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers."  Matthew 23:4

WAAAY more disturbing than any misogynist's blather. Way more disturbing.

A certain evangelist was putting a ballpark number of people whom God saves.  Basically, throughout all church history, maybe ten million.  Tops.  Of course, he, his wife (doing the cooking and laundry off-grid) and child will make it heaven.  As for the 99.9999999999 rest of us (who are not willing to unplug our electric heat in the winter and our AC in the summer) ... we're eternally cooked.

Oh nothing new, back in the day, (1960s) you were about marked as a reprobate, for taking your kid to see a cowboy movie / your wife to a dinner dance.  Even while i was most definitely LOST - like a golf ball in high weeds - couldn't help but notice the harsh hearted smugness among "Christians."  So perfect, and oh, not even a thought to buy a secular record (music media).   The old, if it's enjoyable / attractive, it's sinful - i.e., if the dress doesn't look like a potato sack, then wearing it is a sin.  Where's the "joy" in that!

And you wonder why people, who can add 2+2, figure, why even bother striving, and go on for the remainder of their lives, ignoring sermons, and letting dust accumulate upon their Bible. Such "sermons" are BIGTIME hope killers.  Most of us are not even anywhere near perfect; we know that, deep in our sin-ridden hearts.  Most of us - even who set Godly boundaries - are not into using (if not plain WRESTING) the Bible to spiritually high-hat people.  Uhm, how's that passage go again?  Oh yes, "if possible, live peaceably with all men."

This post is not on the side of drum-set, dark-stage easy-believism; where you're in, because you said the sinner's prayer sometime around easter of  '97 - then two days after, went back to living like a party-animal, and have been jaming to the dead ever since.  No, if there's no change, there's no rebirth - period.  And for real, the Bible talks about the crowded wide road that leads to hell, and less populated narrow road that leads to heaven. There's also a Scripture where pharisee types crowd around the narrow gate, and won't let people pass though, and neither go in themselves.

Starting time for work, more of this later.

"Which say, Stand by thyself, come not near to me; for I am holier than thou.  These are a smoke in my nose, a fire that burneth all the day."  Isaiah 65:5

"But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in."  Matthew 23:13

Don't have any documentation for this, just something i heard a few years ago. Migraine

headaches are stress related.  It's only my guess, that when people (women) get shat on, time and time again, and don't call the creep(s) on their b.s. - because, ya know, that's not Christlike, we're supposed to suffer.  And smile :/.  Bull dinky!  Health issues, especially, of that sort, play heck, come old age - when women are STILL expected to take care of others - without ... even so much as taking an hour, here and there, to go enjoy a quiet meal, at the local diner.  Bruh!  And, oh horrors, take a $50, (of the money YOU worked for) and spend it on one meal, dessert, and the nice tip for the guy or gal who brings it to the booth.

A nice quiet meal.  No kids to bother you (and everyone else, and no man-baby to gripe and complain, about the weather, taxes, roads, the President ... pick one, or more :/  Is an occasional hour or so, to yourself, too much to expect?  

As for following the Lord Jesus.  Here's a tip:  the Lord Jesus is big on honesty - uhm, truth includes being on the level with yourself.  If you're being gaslit, and repressing it, that's lying.  The preeechers, don't expound on that...hmm; they just want you to shaddup, fill the plate with $20s - even though your car insurance is coming due.  There's a mission trip (to Vegas) coming up, don't you know.  Just fork it over, you old HAG, then get your butt home and make a big sunday dinner, (for the ungrateful creeps, a.k.a., family) then do up the dishes and pans - never mind, you have to be at the big-box by five pm.  

And women are leaving marriage, motherhood.  and church in droves???

"Yet ye say, Wherefore? Because the LORD hath been witness between thee and the wife of thy youth, against whom thou hast dealt treacherously: yet she is thy companion, and the wife of thy covenant."  Malachi 2:14