Re: NOT Your Grandma's Church
| Posted On: 05/25/07 03:00:51 PM |
Age 57, AR |
I've been reading about all this stuff going on in the EMC. Are the things mentioned in this article really true? Are there spandex pants and pierced faces, and all that? Seriously!!
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- Re: Re: NOT Your Grandma's Church
| Posted On: 05/26/07 08:11:24 AM | | Age 40, WI |
For evidence of just how bad churches have become, please visit my blog, www.sliceoflaodicea.com. It brings me no pleasure to billboard the wacky fads and abominations now commonplace in evangelical churches, but unless we understand the scope of the problem, we can't even pray properly. The church is in great spiritual rebellion. Our worship will never be higher than our view of God and the evidence is in that the evangelical view of God is very, very low. Think clowns in the pulpit, hula dancers, you name it.
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Re: NOT Your Grandma's Church
| Posted On: 05/25/07 01:45:12 PM |
Age 56, IL |
Excellent article! As a member of the "grandpa" set, I can relate. As a pastor, I relate even more. How unfortunate that those who can teach us the most have become expendable according to many of the ministry standards of today. The stuff we learn from books, etc. may find it's way to the hard drive of our mind, but rarely, if ever, profoundly affects us. Experience, on the other hand, is a terrific teacher. Learning from those who have gone through the fire resonates with both the mind AND heart- and often produces the changes we so desperately need. It was always easy for me to promise to pray for a young couple who had just lost a child, but I didn't really know what they were going through until I lost my own first born son. That experience changed my entire approach to ministering to people with needs. Suddenly their problems became very real! My own trials have made things like compassion come alive and take on a whole new meaning. I can't really be compassionate until I've walked in someone else's shoes- that's the value of personal experience as well as learning from those of others. We do ourselves and the church irreparable harm by casting off those who's life and experiences have much to teach us.
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