WHY you believe something is infinitely more important than what you believe.
Caution: Do not read this blog if you are satisfied with WHAT you believe.
CHURCH IS boring. I don’t ever recall hopping out of bed on Sunday morning jazzed about the sermon, even when the preacher was good. I’ve never driven to church in anticipation of hearing the choir or the worship band, even when they included remarkable musicians. When I went, it was to see my friends. I wanted to talk. Sunday school and Bible study were okay, but breezeway and parking lot conversations were the most invigorating.My utmost communion with the Body of Christ didn’t even happen on the church premises. That happened in some loud restaurant that offered free refills of Diet Coke that helped me power on past noon and large portions that would render me unconscious fifteen minutes after I got home.
As a former paid member of the fraternity of preachers, I thought it would be fun to write about things regarding institutional church life. I may be irreverant at times, but as Mark Twain has said, "sacred cows really do make great hamburgers."
Rest assured I do love Jesus and His church.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it" -- Upton Sinclair
"A truth’s initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn’t the world being round that agitated people, but that the world wasn’t flat. When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic." —Dresden James
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