Wednesday, March 04, 2009
Why you should stop listening to online sermons...
"...You probably at least should pray that you don’t become an online sermon elitist who wishes you lived in [insert preaching hero]’s city so you could go to that church every Sunday. You have a church. You have a minister. If the man’s not a heretic, commit yourself to prayer, that you would be content—even happy—with where God has you." Read the rest here.
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is that you stopped putting your sermons on the podcast of the churces website? :-D
in all seriousness, i totally agree...my wife however is usually working in the nursery and doesn't get to hear them.....
we don't listen to any other online sermons...
No...Im not against podcast...the article points out the people who use podcasts to a degree that it fosters discontent in them for where they are at. That is the misusing the medium.
Good advice as I look forward to listening to some of yours, Eric.
All things in moderation, I guess.
Hey now. Before we start posting things that could potentially put me out of a job, I think we should at least discuss it first. I mean, I know I'm behind...but jeeez!
;)
Hey Mike,
podcast updates or not. Thank you for devoting your time every Wed night. You, Bill & Sue do a really great job with our most important group.
Wes, They have intronet down in Boise?
Sorry off topic
Chris
Yea Chris. The interweb is pretty cool!
I hear we're also getting a new store down here..."Walmart".
Man, whoda thunk it? A store where you can buy a whole new wall!
Hi Pastor and all commentors!
I have personal experience with the topic of this post. But I have to say I disagree. In my own life, church is more about the opportunities to fellowship with others, to celebrate shared joy over God and the Gospel, and to learn how to love and accept people unconditionally. Church is not my main source of spiritual food--all the rest of life is, including online sermons (watched or read.)
We're responsible before God for being faithful with these lives, and for me a huge part of that has been finding those people whom God uses to speak most clearly and powerfully to my heart. At one time it made me hungry to attend their churchs, but now it just serves to make me a better person during those Sunday, Wednesday and Thursday fellowship times. (I hope, anyway...)
Thanks for sharing this post and the article. Great food for thought and for digging deeper to know God, and ourselves, better.
Have a great, safe, relaxing, productive, fruitful trip to Portland, and give your dad a hug for me, please.
The point of the article is a run only for those who are the subject of the article. But it's really part of a larger topic about the "matrix" like nature of this growing "consumer community" technology movement.
This post is my preemptive strike..,the next post is on Video Venues and the franchising of chuches. The new colonialism where certain churches are branding themselves and following the Starbuckization model of corporate expansion.
The breeding of Babel like church empires that more like the Borg of Star Trek.
It's Christian nepotism and it's counter to many new testament patterns Like bad religious incest its weakening the churches healthy reproduction systems that should provide a fresh new healthy DNA pool for the reproduction of free churches.
But that bees nest is going to have to be swatted after my trip. ;)
i get the point...
when i used to go to a "mega-church" with my parents my dad actually said one time, "i think i'll just stay home and watch it on tv......"
that is not what the church should be!
mike and/or eric, yes, some people actually do d/l the podcasts and listen to them... i know we can order cds too..maybe we will.
we appreciate this tool when you do get around to it..and then wes can enjoy the sermons seeing as they do in fact have interet in boise..........:D
"...Like bad religious incest its weakening the churches healthy reproduction systems that should provide a fresh new healthy DNA pool for the reproduction of free churches..."
Say that three times fast.
Me thinks you are ignebriated by the exuberance of your own verbosity! But, I like it.
Love,
The Wife
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