Unshakable, Unchangable, Unstoppable…That’s what you are.
You’ll have to forgive me for this, but I’m totally going to plagiarize someone else’s blog! This is from an old friend of mine named Jessie Krohn, who I haven’t seen since my freshman year of the SAU. In fact…not since my first semester of my freshman year at the SAU. Anyway…I was just thinking about the very same thing today as I sat in my roommates church today, thought about church back home, and just church in general. Not to say anything bad about the church, but it was certainly weak, and was certainly a big fat comfort zone (to put it mildly and not to go into to detail). (Oh, and Robby, your dad’s sermon was good. But I told him that anyway. lol.) Anyway, this following excerpt is just another reminder to me on how things never change in the game. It’s nice, it’s good, it’s right, it’s what should be happening, if you want me to get testy I’d even go as far as to say it’s cute, but it’ll never go down. We love the big fat comfort zone! It’s what we do! We can barely think about God long enough to even consider thinking about other people.
Metaphor: (I want you to really picture this one now…makes it more effective) God is our toilet paper. After we get through using Him to wipe our stuff ….We stick Him back on the designated spot for him to sit until our crap gets too stank even for our own existences. Then we go running to Him again. Try and tell me that’s not true.
Plagiarism:
“Today I was invited to go to a church in a town about 40 minutes away. After teaching the teen Sabbath school class, I left, racing to make it on time… I got there, and what do you know??… The people I was looking for weren’t there. Why? Because they didn’t specify which church, because there are two churches in that city: the “white” and “black” one. I went to the one where I went to church school at and ended up at the wrong one.
If we Adventists think Jesus is going to come back before we desegregate our church conferences we’re nuts. Last I checked there wasn’t a white or black, liberal or conservative, rich or poor, Jew or Greek, bond or free, male or female, or even blue or green side of heaven. We’re all one in Christ, and should start acting like family now before we reject what God and Christianity and Heaven is all about, and miss out on it all together. ” – Jessie Krohn
The game never changes.
Yeah. . . that’s middle class white america for you. Always in the comfort zone. It’s hard to shake them out of it, too, because as soon as you point out their inconsistencies, they point out your inconsistencies to avoid dealing with their own.
robby
30 Oct 09 at 8:19 am