Wednesday, November 23, 2011

What if God is using them to correct us?

If one has had any sort of Christian indoctrination they are familiar with the idea of the still small voice. God does not scream, he whispers. God does not send his rebukes through the "credible" leaders rather he send them through the outcasts so that one must be attentive in order to hear it. He has a record of using animals, pagan nations, and shepherds (who I have been taught would have had a status close to that of niggers, with all the baggage attached to that word, in much of the history of mainstream American society). My point is what if God wants out of Christmas and he is using the Humanist, those whose message is most despised by the Church, to send his message to the Church?

Quite a few years ago I had the experience of being in a church service on either the last Sunday of November or the first Sunday of December where it began to rain inside the building (the new roof was inspected), there was evidence left on the pews and the floor, but not the ceiling. The response of the leadership was to set the morning's agenda aside and go with the flow, as it were. In the following week the senior pastor made the decision to set that Sunday aside until the new year and to pursue the Christmas program as planned; whatever happened that one Sunday died in December. The follow year I was in a different church in a different city, having moved over the summer, when a word from Amos was highlighted at the same time of year,
I hate, I reject your festivals, and I will not smell [the sacrifices of] your assemblies.

What if God wants out and we are drowning him out with all our noise, both inside and outside the Church?

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