Dont forget Sambo's resturant ....lol

Oh riiiiiiiigght !! I do remember that !!

Well I suppose we've hijacked Goose's thread enough for one night !!

Fun to reminisce without having to be there !

Wasnt puddingstone a small man made lake / swim hole with steel slides into the water , and a nasty overcrowded beach ?

Or am i thinking of something else ?

Roger that

Many good things that has had us led to the appreciative places we have found .

And the depth we see in goals we will meet . Everything else is unfocused static . To see the gems sparkling in our timeline is all we need.

True story

Getting back to LG original post.... I often wondered how Our Lord would view these mega churches when the Second Coming arrives.

I attended one in Minnesota, several times, at a friends request. Both he and his wife were big time "arm wavers" and liked the pastor... Mac Hammond. Now a service at this church was a real New York production. A band that could put Elvis's Hawaii tour musicians to shame. A great choir and awesome speakers. The underlying message I got out of Mac's sermon was the "God wants us to be successful and wealthy".

My friend said that he made a tithe to the church of 20% of his earnings. When the market crashed in '98, he was unable to give but a small pittance to them, but was chastised for going back on his original pledge.
He was shunned by those in the inner circle, of which he was originally part of.

Seems to me like some churches have lost sight of what a house of worship should be about. I remember a great movie..... If I remember correctly it was called Leap of Faith, with Steve Martin. He plays an evangelical preacher who pedals his bogus cures to reap big donations. The movie ends with him getting stuck in a small Kansas town where a miracle actually takes place.

Born and raised Catholic.... Yeah, I heard all the Catholic priest abuse jokes, but my church now is watching a trout "tail out" a redd in our stream or watch a grouse drag her one wing on the ground, when you come upon her on a spring hike. Must be babies near... Watch your step!

Getting back to the abuse thing...... After attending Catholic school for 12 years in the late 40's, well if nuns were included in these "abuse" cases, I'd be a millionaire.

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Me too. You answered my question. Thank you.

Yep..

Was this the church that now has 41 people testing positive for covid? Or a different church ( that wasn't taking it seriously)?

Most every other church has found a way to get the messages out without endangering their entire congregation.

Our seminary cancelled on-site class, and in-house daily chapel service even before the orders came to do so. DTS, and other world-leading non-denominational seminaries came to the same conclusion fairly quickly. We are now all online from this point until ???

Everyone I interact with daily from Dallas Theological Seminary (professors, staff, students) realize that this isn't optimal, but there are times when we as followers of Christ should be an example; salt, and light, to the world. Churches should be the very first to protect brothers and sisters, whatever that may look like.

It's not a earthly political or freedom America theme.
It's a biblical calling to serve your brother and sister and guard them.

Helping to protect "other" people's lives isn't selfish, it's biblical.
Many know Matthew 22:39, where Jesus answered the religious Jews who asked the greatest of commands, "You shall love your neighbor as yourself," but Christ who came to fulfill the Law knew the Hebrew Scriptures intimately so Jesus knew that He answered the religious Sadducees quoting the words spoken by God to Moses in the Hebrew text; Leviticus 19:18, "You shall not take vengeance, nor bear any grudge against the sons of your people, but you shall love your neighbor as yourself; I am the Lord."

We as followers of Christ should never put "my rights and privileges" above our concerns over others. If we do, please don't quote your Bible, because your hermeneutics and interpretation skills need a Divine reset.

Unselfishness and righteous (opposite of self-righteous) behavior is not common in society, but the redemptive way has been made available as a choice to each of us... by the One who described it as a narrow, not well traveled path.
Mercifully some are allowed on it by choice, not by good deeds or cash or any host of false means.

Blessings y'all
Mark

Millions of people are going to work, getting ready for work, getting out of bed to work and already at work, right now as I write this. They are all going to mingle with millions of other people. More millions of children than the millions of adults going to work are going to mingle with millions of other children and millions of adults who drop off and pick up kids at daycares all over the nation. That is all perfectly fine.

When 30 of those people who all work together, get together outside of work to celebrate one of thems birthday, or peaceably assemble at a church, or take those kids to park to mingle instead of a daycare, why they are just irresponsible jerks doing their best kill old people and kids with asthma. I say put them in prison to mingle with only a few thousand and slow the spread of this virus.


Anybody that decides to use a TV set for target practice is clearly unhinged and should be redflagged.

Who yells fire in a theater that has fire alarms? Does it really cause a panic?

Wonderful post Mark!

A quote from the movie "Cool Hand Luke"...... "Some people, you just can't reach"

Exactly the opposite. The church is not the building, it's the group of people that meet anywhere. I feel like there's too much relying on a building and one dude to do all the teaching today. The early church met every single day in each other's homes and shared a meal together, which is why we're meeting in our home and having a meal.

What questions have I not answered?

ksp,
The pandemic of a bug is one issue.
The pandemic of sin heightened during times of societal stress is bigger than any bug.

What about all the millions of people going to work today. Taking their kids to a daycare. Some of those people working are in factories, distribution centers and warehouses with hundreds of people all coming into contact with each other. Why are you folks ignoring them??????????? Shouldn't they have to stay home also? How long before they too start dropping like wasps sprayed with carb cleaner? I am thinking it should happen any day now.

Not certain I folla ya.
Are you concerned about your fellow man & woman?
Or trying to prove a point?

you answer first mark june

You may have already done so.