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I attended a church numerous times with some friends. The worship songs were fine, but I was so bothered by the sermon, something was not in line with God. It took me a second Sunday to figure it out. The pastor was simply telling a great story with good values and morals. But there were zero references to a single scripture. Nothing. It was so blatantly obvious once I figured it out. The man was a Sunday storyteller, not a pastor.

The frosting on the cake; his wife was in charge of their Recovery program for drugs and alcohol. She ran a tight ship. If you were openly sinning, she was the one to counsel you instead of the head pastor. It was common knowledge that she was the one that would call you on the carpet for gossiping about information learned during the Recovery program, she was the one to even deal with other issues within the church instead of her husband. IMHO he was a figurehead and she was the actual pastor of the church. Bet big money she was also the disciplinarian in their home when their children were small.


10 posted on 09/27/2020 3:14:10 PM PDT by notpoliticallycorewrecked (I thank the good Lord everyday that I no longer live in CA.)
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To: notpoliticallycorewrecked
The pastor was simply telling a great story with good values and morals.

I go to a liturgical church. Every Sunday we have readings of significant chunks of scripture from the historical or prophetical books of the Old Testament, from the Psalms, from one of the New Testament epistles and from one of the gospels. Our priest is expected to be guided by these readings when preparing his sermon. Once I accompanied friends to their "Bible" church. The people were welcoming and sincere and I have no reason to assume they were not living lives focused on Christ. But I heard only one verse of scripture during the entire service.

54 posted on 09/27/2020 10:28:31 PM PDT by TexasKamaAina
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