Date: 10/18/2002 12:09:00 PM
From Authorid: 55970
Good point....I've been wondering that myself   |
Date: 10/18/2002 12:12:00 PM
From Authorid: 42568
Great post!  |
Date: 10/18/2002 12:12:00 PM
From Authorid: 20746
*blinks* Matty my love you have some very valid points -- and they never cease to amaze me, nor get me to stop thinking about them.  |
Date: 10/18/2002 12:14:00 PM
From Authorid: 18527
good point Boom Boom  |
Date: 10/18/2002 12:25:00 PM
From Authorid: 10245
I've never seen a Jesus statue decorated with rosemary... sometimes a rosary, though   |
Date: 10/18/2002 12:29:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 26733
Rosary* I always say rosemary. Even as I was typing this I wrote 'rosmary'. It's embeded in my head to say rosemary since I was in a private school in kindergarden.  |
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Date: 10/18/2002 12:29:00 PM
From Authorid: 10245
LOL... I thought it was cute |
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Date: 10/18/2002 12:31:00 PM ( From Author )
From Authorid: 26733
lol Yea, im still going to say rosemary just because I have a bad short term memory and probably wont remeber it. |
Date: 10/18/2002 12:35:00 PM
From Authorid: 53836
I know our collection goes to pay the bills, our pastor's modest earnings, his wife for her secretarial offerings (and it ain't much $$) the church hasn't changed anything except the flower arrangements in all the years I have visited (my entire life) besides to upgrade their PA system which was still low performing equipment...I don't pray to statues, in every Baptist church I have ever held membership at, we pray directly to God, statues are just ceramic or bronze, even gold, and in my opinion idols, and you won't find them in a Baptist church...and although I worship Christ no matter where I am, I am greatful for our church because of the friends and family I have there. Even if I don't go to church as regularly right now, God and I are still on the same terms as if I had been attending every service....juat my thoughts..  |
Date: 10/18/2002 2:01:00 PM
From Authorid: 13546
Exactly what I've been thinking as well.. nothing.. is right Matt. *eyebrow raise* Perhaps yet again, another one of those mysteries?! Good point. Good post.  |
Date: 10/18/2002 2:41:00 PM
From Authorid: 52155
Well said SpaceCase. Just because a building is a church, does not mean that they get to get out of paying for electricity, phone, water, gas, maintanence, etc. And the Pastor/preacher does not get out of paying those bills at their house either. My church is also a modest one, and I am on the church board, so I know where the money goes each month. And at my church it does not go to buying statues, fancy windows, or such. But coming from a Catholic background, I understand what you are saying, boom boom. I have seen these fancy churches and wondered exactly what the people inside were worshiping. Your reationship with God is the most important part of "church" and you are right, that can be in your living room.  |
Date: 10/24/2002 12:54:00 PM
From Authorid: 52736
i understand that a church's facilities must be paid for *as with any other building in society* but i think the point that's trying to be made (or at least my interpretation of it) is the necessity of a church is not there. a building is not needed for worship, nor acceptance from God (or the Goddess, whatever you believe). a church may be a "holy building"...but it is just that: a building. who is a priest to say that you must worship in this way, in this building, believing every word that is expelled from their mouth?? they do not have the authority to say what God wills. the Bible should be open to interpretation, in such a way that it makes sense to the person reading it, not so that the priest can demand that what they say is true. a true believer cannot be defined by how often they go to church, or if they believe every word uttered out of a priest's mouth. on the contrary, i feel that the most devout do not need a building to feel "religious" and "holy" in, once a week; they can find this in themselves. nor do they need someone to tell them what the Bible says, for they have come to a greater understanding in such a way that impacts they're own life. this then touches them on a much more personal level than the opinions made by a priest, completely objective to this person's life. i say this with a little bias, having always had a certain amount of spite for the church...but i do not say this out of malice nor hatred. i went to church for a good many years, and got some out of it, but not all that i yearned for. i have now found a religion that better suits me, but i have not given up on my religious upbringing, nor forgotten it in any sense. anyway, peace love and tangerines  |
Date: 12/16/2002 3:49:00 PM
From Authorid: 59746
interesting post  |
