A modest proposal for pastors
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4 responses to “A modest proposal for pastors”
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Honestly, it makes me sick. I am reading more and more that the “secular” world looks at most of Christianity, or perhaps a more appropriate term would be Christian churches, and thinks it’s a big joke. Your referring to Children’s ministry as a “Kid-a-Palooza” would be humorous if it weren’t so true.
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Thanks for your thoughts.
This is the question: How do we extract ourselves from this joke?
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“How do we extract ourselves?” Now that is the $100,000 question! I generally don’t buy into the whole ‘how successful is your ministry’ mindset, but that is difficult. I’m often accused of being the “Negative Nellie” by questioning the point of things like a Kid-A-Palooza program. After a time, a person just quits trying. Perhaps God is treating His American church much like we earthly parents treat our children–sometimes, you just have to let them fall into the pit they dug, and then help them climb out. It does make me sad, though, to see how much time and effort churches put into things that are a mile wide and an inch deep.
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Boy, that mile-wide, inch-deep pit can be so deep and all-consuming, can’t it?
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