hello!

does any of this ring a bell, sound familiar, push a button, tick you off, make you shout, “yeah!”, make you feel guilty, sound exactly like your church? do you want to know God and have Him in your life, but your experience with church makes you want to throw up? yes! hey, i may be the only one out here who feels this way, but something tells me …

but YOUR church does

ok, ok, so you say that YOUR church does worship God. ok then, tell me this: how many people attend when the main talking guy isn’t there? you know, the “lead pastor” or the “teaching pastor” or the “senior pastor” [old school], whichever. plenty of seats that morning, i’ll bet. or what if your favorite singer, “worship pastor,” “worship leader,” “lead worshiper” is “leading” in another room or perhaps at another “campus” that day [all cool churchy catch phrases are in quotes in case you aren't hip to the cool catchiness]; do you move over there? do you follow that guy/girl? or if the parking situation really sucks, do you go somewhere else altogether instead? a “maybe” to any of these? so that means you’re worshiping whom? just asking …

worship whom?

i read in the Bible that we’re all created to worship God, but all the churches i know of don’t worship God. they worship some guy who gets up in front and talks for 40 minutes about how to make your life work better. or they worship the singer who has a song in rotation on christian radio. or they worship the cool, vibey atmosphere they call “relevant” because it looks like an overgrown coffee shop [but with not-as-good coffee]. yeah, relevant. but they’re not worshiping God! you know, God? the Almighty? the Creator of the universe! the all-powerful supreme being who THOUGHT the whole world into existence? ring a bell, anyone?