> General Discussions

Why?

<< < (3/3)

snorky:
I took an art history class many years ago and uses Jansen's huge fat text "History of Art". One of the reasons for the outward signs of stained glass and the gargoyles and the like was to attract wealthy patrons (Borgias, De Medicis. etc.) and employ the great artists of the day. All carnal, all the time. I wouldn't attend a megachurch (and neither will my son, who now goes to college in a medium sized city...in fact right now he's not going to church! Praise God) if it was the last place on earth. In fact, speaking of tiny wood churches "for losers"...that sounds like mine!  If Jesus leads me out of it (and only if He does! I've had to grapple with this for some time), I'll leave it. But this is the kind of church, for the most part, that really does behave much of the time as a body of Christ. When someone of low income (and in West Texas near the border, this means practically everyone) needs medical bill help, we all chip in what we can. And our pastor actually does have a real job (installs satellite internet) and so does his wife (from Russia, by the way...he met her doing missionary work there after Communism fell) who helps him. And no buying or selling is allowed there, either. If someone brings squash or whatever, it is free and given to all who want some. Even has FREE cemetery plots...you don't even have to church there!--snorky

YellowStone:
BrotherToAll wrote:

Would I have a pew all to myself and maybe even asked to leave. I would hope that maybe one person out of the 100's that were attending would come over and welcome me with open arms.

It is like this: It looks real nice on the outside but within is dead mans bones!

Matthew 23:27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

Bobby, my eldest step son is a member of a local Baptist Church choir, and they are magnificent. Many times we have went to the church and listened to them and sat in on a sermon or two. The people are wonderful, open, friendly; everything that I hadn't seen for a very long time. My wife and I feel the same way about churches, but because of our younger son, thought the fellowship in this church would be beneficial for him.

So we decided to check out the church and attended one or two of their study groups. My wife went to the women's and I to the men's. Enough said! One study put me with a guy who could sprout scripture like he was born with it, but he had no idea what it mean't. It wasn't his fault, but he was clueless. My wife found the same with her group, just a room filled with talking heads.

No amount of sound doctrine made the slightest difference, so we canned that idea. Just goes to show, what you see is not what you get.

Well said Bobby, :)

Darren

Navigation

[0] Message Index

[*] Previous page