I was looking in my past documents today, and found this. Its a rant I wrote down, just to vent, July two years ago.
Is it right for us to criticize others for their sliver in their eye, when we ignore the branch in our own?
Is it right for us to gossip and complain about what others do out of earshot?
I say it is far better to do something new than to keep with everything old.
I say it is far better to keep quiet about disgruntlements about others to one’s self, rather than complain to a neighbor about what is wrong with our fellow man.
But I am one to talk! Here I am writing criticisms where anyone can read.
I know of a church that is so made up of old customs and traditions that it is reluctant to admit that there are youths in its presence. It is so tied with its habits that it smothers the enthusiastic from changing the church for the better.
The Church is so tied up and unwilling to share Jesus to the community and silences those who might have evangelized before!
How eager I am to be moving from the church to experience a new one. I can never feel the Holy Spirit run through the congregation in my current church, but once, while I visited another the Spirit was clear as day.
And you know what? There was hardly a traditional hymn played by the band. THE BAND! My current church does not have a band, but only a boring piano and a second hand organ.
Another thing is the inner gossip and trivialities. The inner politics is enough to drive one insane!
The Church is supposed to be God-fearing, and Jesus-like people…That means to accept others with their flaws.
It upsets me to no end that my church is like this and frustrating in the knowledge that I have no power to change what it is.
Is it right for us to criticize others for their sliver in their eye, when we ignore the branch in our own?
Is it right for us to gossip and complain about what others do out of earshot?
I say it is far better to do something new than to keep with everything old.
I say it is far better to keep quiet about disgruntlements about others to one’s self, rather than complain to a neighbor about what is wrong with our fellow man.
But I am one to talk! Here I am writing criticisms where anyone can read.
I know of a church that is so made up of old customs and traditions that it is reluctant to admit that there are youths in its presence. It is so tied with its habits that it smothers the enthusiastic from changing the church for the better.
The Church is so tied up and unwilling to share Jesus to the community and silences those who might have evangelized before!
How eager I am to be moving from the church to experience a new one. I can never feel the Holy Spirit run through the congregation in my current church, but once, while I visited another the Spirit was clear as day.
And you know what? There was hardly a traditional hymn played by the band. THE BAND! My current church does not have a band, but only a boring piano and a second hand organ.
Another thing is the inner gossip and trivialities. The inner politics is enough to drive one insane!
The Church is supposed to be God-fearing, and Jesus-like people…That means to accept others with their flaws.
It upsets me to no end that my church is like this and frustrating in the knowledge that I have no power to change what it is.
