Christians annoy the crap out of me. Sunday morning is definetly the best part of my week. I love being with the youth in sunday school and singing good songs and listening and learning in the sermon and seeing a lot of people that I really just love all in one room. Today was not that kind of day. There are days that I walk into church and listen to the sermons and talk to all the smiling people and sing all the songs and I feel like every bit of it is fake. I feel like we've created some really annoying bubble that only a certain type of person can enter into, and we have all these words and phrases that we use that dont seem to match up anywhere. We just talk about things a lot. As I'm writing this I also want to add in that I hate books that talk about how much the American church is lacking today. I mean of course the church is lacking. It is a big room slam packed with sinners. So I don't want to be one of those kids. I am well pleased with my church in fact. I guess there's no real point to what I'm saying, I just want to say things because it's my blog and I can. We Christians try to figure everything out and we think we're right about everything and we take scripture out of context when it agrees with our point, and then again when it disproves the point someone else is trying to make and we don't like it. Christianity is not simple, and I'm not trying to make the point that it is. I just think that our little God bubble that we want to all be protected from the world in adds a lot of things to what it means to follow Christ. Lots of extra phrases and books and 10-step programs. YES I want to go into the field of business one day and NO I don't intend on going to hell for it. Money is not evil, the love of it is. So I'm over it and I dig Jesus.
I might go back and delete this post when I stop being emo for a day.
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I'm gonna end up writing a bigger post about this on my blog later, but I wanted to share something I witnessed last night. I'm at Annual Conference and was asked to acolyte for the Ordination Service in which elders and deacons are ordained, licensed or commissioned. I got to sit on the stage and watch as one by one they each came up on stage to be blessed and ordained by our bishop.
One thing that struck me was the expression of excitement, honor, and joy they had on their faces, and the expressions of hope other leaders had for them. It was a beautiful moment, and one that I felt honored to witness.
I too have been fearing the "church is dying" syndrome...but last night all I felt was God's presence upon these leaders.
The Bishop charged them to take authority of the Word, and to make sure tat they include others in their ministry so that God can empower the whole church to be leaders.
I'm not sure if this in any way answers your post, I kinda just threw it out there, but I wanted to share just a way I have seen God working within the church and share how I know that God will conitnue to work.
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