Things I Learned From Church (That Didn’t Prove True And What I Am Learning Lately)

I’ve decided to join in Glenn’s Synchroblog. Any opportunity to pull out my Cynical Hat. So here goes.
15 Things I learned from church (that did’t prove true)
1. The path to conversion is to bring people to church, or a church-organised event.
2. The Pastor’s job is to oversee the church and to create the vision of [...]

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Christian Baggage

I was having a talk with some friends over dinner last night, and one of the things we spoke about was the “Christian” label.
They are happy to keep the Christian label because it automatically identifies people with what they believe, and makes them more likely to ask questions like “Could you pray for me?” [...]

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Hope

A new Postsecret montage I made. Enjoy.
Music: Miserere by The Cat Empire

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Sent

I love this quote from Honest Faith:1 Fallacies 7:24
And Jesus said to them, “Go into all the churches and preach the good news to those few who come in.”

It perfectly illustrates what we as the Western Church do. Build a building and let them come.
Jesus never once built a church on a hill, draped [...]

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Was Jesus a Christian?

Found via Honest Faith.

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It’s a Peanuts world…

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!
(if only it wasn’t so true)

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Cashing in on Jesus

Haven’t you heard? Jesus is actually a big spiritual ATM. All you need to do is tithe to your local church or give to large American-based TV ministries, and prosperity is yours.
As you can probably tell, this post is about what’s commonly called the Prosperity Doctrine. See Wikipedia if you (thankfully) have no idea what [...]

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Addicted….

I came across this on Erin’s blog and thought it would be fun.
72%How Addicted to Blogging Are You?[edit: found this one too! Now it's official.]
I am 71% Addicted to Coffee
My name is Heather and I’m an addict. Double-shot skinny lattes and blogging. Hey, if they’re my only two vices I think I’m [...]

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Hashunda maroonda

OK, this is a difficult post to write. Writing it says publicly that I may have been wrong all these years. It’s also one of the most hotly debated topics within Christianity, and most people have a very strong opinion on the subject. In fact, I only admitted this to my best [...]

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Hashunda maroonda

OK, this is a difficult post to write. Writing it says publicly that I may have been wrong all these years. It’s also one of the most hotly debated topics within Christianity, and most people have a very strong opinion on the subject. In fact, I only admitted this to my best [...]

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Linky stuff

A bunch of people have been writing some worthwhile stuff lately. Take a minute to go and see them:
Lee Smiling wrote about The Sinner’s Prayer. You know, the magic words: “I open the door of my heart and invite you in, I close the door of my heart with you inside” stuff.
Smartpastor talks [...]

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Biblically-justified sexism and ageism in a nutshell

The indomitable Justin, aka lucaslabrador. He is indeed a God Warrior, almost akin to the madwoman from Trading Spouses, just a little quieter.
Here are some of his noteworthy quotes from one of the most sexist clips I have ever seen.
“This is a man’s world and a man’s church first, women come second, children come [...]

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Priorities

I dressed to the nines and went to an auction dinner a couple of nights ago for a football club. We were invited guests of my husband’s boss, and it was a lovely evening. Beautiful food, very good wine (the house wine they were offering was from our favourite winery), and I had [...]

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The cry of the soul

I went to an Evanescence concert a few months ago. The music was amazing, slightly chilling, very powerful. The lyrics scream honesty.
Take the song Tourniquet, for example. It’s an obvious cry from the soul that shows a need for God. OK, they’re singing about achieving release through self-harm, but it’s the [...]

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Missy again!

OK, last post about Missy and I’ll get back to deconstructing. Promise.
The show was fantastic. Really. Incredible. Alex wasn’t well, so I took a friend along. We enjoyed the *free* pre-show drinks and food, and then, since we were “guests” (see pic above) instead of ordinary people (ego heading through the roof and out into [...]

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I WON!!!!!!!

I’m shamelessly announcing my status as winner of the Missy Higgins Live at the Chapel promotion.
YAAAAAAAYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Too excited to work, because on Monday evening Alex and I will be heading to Little Chapel St, Prahran, to join the unbelievably talented Missy for the taping of a Vodafone Live at the Chapel session.
Did I say YAAAAAAAYYYYY!!!!! yet?
And [...]

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I’m in the Simpsons!

OK, not really. But I made myself into a Simpsons character. Hee hee. Yes, I know, I’m very easy to amuse.

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50 (sort of) answers for Rhymes

Rhymes_with_Kerouac wrote another fantastic post yesterday. He asked 50 questions that I think deserve a decent response. I’m in no way qualified to answer them, but since I’m a know-it-all I’ll chip in anyway.
So here goes.
1. Why don’t we give church members keys to the kitchen?Because church members can’t be [...]

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To be known is to be loved

This video is obviously a church ad, but the poem is incredible. “To be known is to be loved, and to be loved is to be known”. Isn’t that all we really want?
It’s based on the feelings the that Samaritan woman who Jesus met at the well may have had.
[edit: I've expanded on [...]

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"Touch Not Mine Anointed"

Above is another inspired cartoon by The NakedPastor.
Arguably the most misused and abused scripture in the whole bible is “Touch not mine anointed, and do my prophets no harm (Psalm 105:15).
It has been used as a shield from accountability, a threat of God’s wrath, and a fear tactic by televangelists, pastors, preachers and prophets the [...]

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