I Went to Church on Sunday...
And I enjoyed it... but I am not sure why... yet.
Something happened to me spiritually... but I am not sure what... yet.
I might want to connect again... but I am not sure when or where... yet.
More details to follow.
Something happened to me spiritually... but I am not sure what... yet.
I might want to connect again... but I am not sure when or where... yet.
More details to follow.
posted by Steve at
3/05/2007
37 Comments:
Hmm. Me too, with the family. I was ready to roll my eyes at yet another run-of-the-mill evangesermon, but I really appreciated what the pastor had to say.
One step at a time.
Sunday was interesting for me, but not like the two of you. I watched that documentary on Discovery Channel about the archaeologist who claims he found the ossuaries of Jesus and His family.
That got me thinking all day yesterday about what Paul had to say "If Christ isn't risen from the dead, then we are the most foolish people in the world. We are still in our sins." What is the impact of this finding, if true? Is Christianity a hoax? Is theism a hoax? What is spirituality all about?
I went to Target.
I went to Target
Heathen. ;)
I'm a bad Lutheran. I didn't go to church as my wife and I entertained family that day instead. So as punishment I will not eat Jello this week! LOL
Bruce, I saw a story about that by Anderson Cooper. It sure didn't look to me like it was anything legitimate. At least on his show, it really came across like sensationalism instead of honest scientific research. The guys making the movie were talking about conclusions they'd drawn that just couldn't be justified with the evidence. A lot of conjecture there.
Like you said o'shaug, the vast majority of the documentary was conjecture, but the thing that got to me the most was the statictical analysis on the probability of finding a tomb with all of those names associated with Jesus's family, given the frequency of names dispersed in that era. The odds of it not being Jesus's family was something like 600:1, accounting for bias.
Steve, sorry for the threadjack.
Bruce, go here to see another statistical analysis (the one in the documentary was pretty skewed). I usually don't agree with much on the sight I'm sending you to, but this article was helpful in processing the documentary stuff.
Steve, glad you enjoyed church. I read occassionally but have never commented. Look forward to hearing more as you unwrap your experience Sunday.
Hey, thanks for the link!
Steve, it’s great to hear that you had a positive church experience. I am glad for you and hope that the Church continues to offer something positive for your life and that you continue to benefit from whatever virtues were brought about through this latest experience.
steve - cliffhanger
nice
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ucla on the 8th
Frankly, Steve, I'm a little disappointed in you.
Sheesh, first you go to church, next thing I know you won't swear anymore and will start believing what they tell you.
And, you know what Rage Against the Machine says about doing what they tell you...
I was thinking about your post Steve and this thought came into my mind: Remember the scene in 2010 when Hal tells Dave that "something wonderful" is going to happen because of the monoliths on Europa?
Steve I am for one glad that you went and had a good experience.
This just proves that a church gathering is part of the mystery of life. Sometimes it is bullshit - and sometimes God touches our lives in spite of the bullshit.
PG
2010 ?!?
Rage Against the Machine ?!?
Well, Monty Python to you !
RUN AWAY ! RUN AWAY !
"I reckon the Good Lord wouldn't send nobody like you to Hades."
Whenever life gets you down, Mrs. Brown, and things seem hard or tough, and people are stupid, obnoxious, or daft, and you feel that you've had quite enough...
Just remember that you're standing on a planet that's evolving
And revolving at nine hundred miles an hour,
That's orbiting at nineteen miles a second, so it's reckoned,
A sun that is the source of all our power.
The sun and you and me and all the stars that we can see
Are moving at a million miles a day
In an outer spiral arm, at forty thousand miles an hour,
Of the galaxy we call the 'Milky Way'.
Our galaxy itself contains a hundred billion stars.
It's a hundred thousand light years side to side.
It bulges in the middle, sixteen thousand light years thick,
But out by us, it's just three thousand light years wide.
We're thirty thousand light years from galactic central point.
We go 'round every two hundred million years,
And our galaxy is only one of millions of billions
In this amazing and expanding universe.
The universe itself keeps on expanding and expanding
In all of the directions it can whizz
As fast as it can go, at the speed of light, you know,
Twelve million miles a minute, and that's the fastest speed there is.
So remember, when you're feeling very small and insecure,
How amazingly unlikely is your birth,
And pray that there's intelligent life somewhere up in space,
'Cause there's bugger all down here on Earth.
I went to Target again on Wednesday night. I really got a lot out of it. It seems that the more serious shoppers show up midweek.
Maybe you just had a brain fart or a lapse of sanity? Who knows?
:|
I love target - they have great sales, those little orange stickers bring me closer to God!!!
Our Target added a Starbucks and some wide-screen TVs playing music videos. I think they copied that from Saddleback.
Hello... are you bitter... need a cyberhug? Just not from me... maybe from beardo above
I hug like a muthasucka.
He does...it's true. I've hugged him.
Hug me !
And me !
And me !
Yes, yes, you must give us all a good hugging !
And after the hugging, THE ORAL SEX !
Security!
Steve, did you go today?
I'm curious as to where you went? Saddleback?
I keep looking for you & Josh in the TBN studio audience, but apparently the security guards still don't 'get' Josh's "Religion Kills" t-shirt...
No I didn't go to church on Sunday. My son had a basketball tournament. (SIDENOTE: He also made the game winning shot in the final seconds of the final game).
And no... it wasn't Saddleback. I said I enjoyed it.
Way to go, Steves-son! That's as inspirational as any sermon...
:)
Hint: Listen to the March 6 "Etcetera" podcast. *nods* ;)
I hope I didn't ruin much for ya, Steve. If so, please kick my ass.
And no... it wasn't Saddleback. I said I enjoyed it.
Perhaps my favorite comment ever.
My guess is that Steve's gone pentecostal...what with the laying on of hands...that stuff get's the Steve-meister hott.
"Hi, my name is Steve, and I once started this heathenistic website called Stupid Church People. But now that I've rediscovered the true magic of today's modern church, I can no longer be a part of such sin. So...farewell, you pathetically lost souls!"
With no actual facts to go on, the mind wonders....what do you expect from generation raised on game-boys and the A-team!
Help us!! Free us from this shadow of suspense!!! Have you really made Crystal Cathedral your new home? I just heard, I don't know.
I would have to say that after speaking with the Merry Monk earlier today, and listening to the 3/6 Etcetera show, I now understand why Steve enjoyed himself... he was with a great bunch of people.
Sure, the service was probably fine. But I would venture a guess that the accompanying friends made it that much better.
Church is ultimately about the people you're with...
church = people...PERIOD.
...to underline the jefez well made poin.
...and yet Steve still chooses to keep his minions in the dark ages. It won't be long before the people form a resistance and revolt. It's about to git uglay up in heeya!
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