My Sunday at an Atheistic Church

Christian Post ^ | February 8, 2013 | Kyle Beshears

[johngrace]

[johngrace]

[Salvation]

From an email:

A member of the church, who previously had been attending services regularly, stopped going. After a few weeks, the pastor decided to visit him.

It was a chilly evening. The pastor found the man at home alone, sitting before a blazing fire. Guessing the reason for his pastor's visit, the man welcomed him, led him to a comfortable chair near the fireplace and waited.

The pastor made himself at home but said nothing. In the grave silence, he contemplated the dance of the flames around the burning logs. After some minutes, the pastor took the fire tongs, carefully picked up a brightly burning ember and placed it to one side of the hearth all alone then he sat back in his chair, still silent.

The host watched all this in quiet contemplation. As the one, lone ember's flame flickered and diminished, there was a momentary glow and then its fire was no more. Soon, it was cold and dead.

Not a word had been spoken since the initial greeting.The pastor glanced at his watch and realized it was time to leave. He slowly stood up, picked up the cold, dead ember and placed it back in the middle of the fire. Immediately it began to glow, once more with the light and warmth of the burning coals around it.

As the pastor reached the door to leave, his host said with a tear running down his cheek, 'Thank you so much for your visit and especially for the fiery sermon. I will be back in church next Sunday.'

[winkadink]

“everyone missed the music and community of their childhood experiences in church and want to bring it back into their lives.”
Ah yes, they are all about what I want and what pleases me.

[Bigg Red]

Deep down in every human being, we are compelled to worship, because it’s what we were created to do.

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That is why so many who reject Christianity flock to stupid stuff like pagan traditions. Satan just smiles....

[PeterPrinciple]

I think God has created the need for fellowship in us. But was is the difference between fellowship and Christian fellowship.

Many churches are just clubhouses. Other than the sermon you will seldom hear much about God. I can learn about the weather, grain prices and politics there though.

[Mark17]

My Sunday at an Atheistic Church

I wonder if he saw Obama there? Oh no, wait, he is a Muslim.

[Heart-Rest]

I wonder if at some point in the atheist service, they all rose to profess their creed...

"I don't believe..."

[Cronos]

I was raised Unitarian - more or less - so I’ve gone to atheistic churches. Mostly the sermon was about some humane or granola-ish or ecological subject - liberal touchstones.

So, in your opinion, are unitarians now just another name for hard-leftists?

[Cronos]

Anthropologically, EVERY human being has an innate need to believe in something bigger than himself/herself. If we don't fill it with God or gods, we fill it with a sense of higher purpose or a force or nationalism or shopping/commercialism.

It is impossible to be a pure athiest and believe there is nothing above oneself. One may reject God, but will then worship Sunday cartoons :)

[MeOnTheBeach]

How many times have you seen or heard atheists denying that atheism is a religion? Especially on DU....

Next time, just point them to this...

[heartwood]

Well, if you search for “conservative Unitarian” you will see that they exist but do not feel at home.

My mother’s church sponsors a Romanian Unitarian church - who are traditional Christians except for not believing in the Trinity (Jesus is Son of God and Redeemer but not God) - they are not liberal - they held out under Communism after all. They haven’t rubbed off on my mother’s church.

[SuziQ]

Ah yes, they are all about what I want and what pleases me.

Exactly, and they don't want to hear that there is anything wrong with anything they want to do.

[johngrace]

Funny!!!!!