Going Back to Church...
This weekend has been quite stressful in many ways - I have a progressively bad cold, the outlaw is here, and then there's the whole housing/work stuff going on.
So here I am, lying in bed on a Sunday morning watching TV when I'd normally be at church, and they start talking about "Back to Church Sunday" which loads of churches are partaking in this week.
The idea is that churches encourage their congregations to invite a friend to the service on this one Sunday of the year (usually linked to the start of a huge country-wide Alpha course starting.
Anyway, I'm really quite shocked by what the people on this programme had to say about it - all of them claiming to be "non-religious". It seems the general consensus is that this is just a big ploy to raise church funds and get more weddings (i.e. money) back into the church. One guy even suggested that Christians were "trying to take the church outside of the church building, which makes the whole thing pointless". Another presenter suggested that in the future we may even see "Bishops dressed up as batman" to try to raise the church's profile.
I mean, really? A bishop, being normal, even "fun" - heaven forbid!! (lol)
My concern - Is this really what people think about Christians (and the church in general) - that we're all just money grabbing morons?
They also, later in the programme, happened to mention that next week is "national smile week" which they're all really positive about!!
So the moral of Sunday morning TV: Forget Church, just keep smiling!!
EXCELLENT!! (not)
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