Boiling
There are two thongs that make my blood boil: injustice and events in Gods house.
This blog will focus on the second.
At the educational institution I attend we are required to attend general asemblies, some of these assemblies take place in the university church. Since it's a requirement usually everyone on campus attends and proceeds to try to find a seat next to their friends in the three minutes before the service starts. As you can imagine there is a large amount of yelling and talking on cell phones and standing on pews, but that doesn't bother me as much as what I watched happen tonight. A young woman theology major came into the sanctuary with 3 of her friends. Credit was being given for the biblical series going on, but since the meetings began at 7pm not a lot of people were showing up. This theology major and her friends sat two rows in front of me in the middle of the sanctuary.
The service begins with a hymn, while everyone is singing this rather large deacon dressed in jeans and a t-shirt enters the pew behind my friend, taps her on the shoulder and proceeds to loudly reprimand her for bringing the tea she was sipping into the sanctuary. Everyone in the 4 rows around them heard this conversation and all stared as the man grabbed her cup from her hand walked to the back of the sanctuary and tossed it.
Two minutes later she and all her friends left.
How would that make you feel?
posted by Extracting Focus @ 4:40 PM
3 Comments
3 Comments:
Adventists love truth, because that's what Christ gave us, new light. We love truth so much that we know Ellen White better than the Bible. This is why NO ONE LIKES US. Christ gave us truth to mix with our love. Sure, maybe she shouldn't have been drinking that in the church (by the way, says who?), or maybe the offense was that there was caffeine in that tea (poor guy could probably feel his own cells accelerating), but if our love goes cold, we no longer have a purpose. The mistake is often made of forsaking the church because of the actions of the members. Instead, we should know what we believe and stand by that while learning from other's mistakes. I say two lessons can be learned from this situation. 1) Have enough guts and fervor to do ANYTHING, within God's standards, to uphold the truths that God has given you. 2) Do everything with the amount of love one would show a lover, family, friend, or kitten.
That almost seems like an oxymoron at times.?
I would agree that this certain church is the most disrespecting church I have attended.
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