silly pastors.
they should be educating their folks. we are to live in the world but not conform to it.
so many churches serve donuts etc, are these pastors gonna file about those?
people make their choices to buy or consume things.
Quite true and obvious, and so easily missed.
They need to be GOSPEL preachers.
The GOSPEL teaches how to use a thing without misusing it, because it teaches a person a loving perspective.
So much of black evangelicaldom has ceased to even be about the falsely caricatured “white Jesus.” (A pastor I knew often commented that the earthly Jesus, like the Hebrew people of his earthly days, was probably some swarthy, rough-hewn chap. We’ve superimposed a white-bread image on Him when that would probably be historically incorrect.)
I like your tag comment. Why the chains.
Part of it is that we aren’t at perfection yet as believers, but simply being moved towards that final state as we live our earthly days.
And yet, there are measures that we can take that will increase the power of the joy of the Lord in ourselves. We’re SUCH happy campers on earth sometimes, that we are losing the vision to move on towards heaven. And therefore the Lord has to keep on presenting us with more chains to break as we go forward. But if we are growing, we will go from breaking little chains to breaking mighty chains.
“so many churches serve donuts etc, are these pastors gonna file about those?”
So many pastors, priests, etc. let their guts rest on their pulpits each and every Sunday too. They are not “living” their religion, they are eating it.