March 22, 2004
Hog Wild n Horns Crazy
What a week! What a weekend! For us it's one more week to go and then we get to rest our heads and thank the Lord for the May/June issue of HM Magazine.
New point for PDL: We were formed for God's family. I've been grateful for and thinking about the church a lot lately. A good friend who is a band manager had some conversations with Michael Sweet of Stryper and this other guy named Michael Guido (who's pastored many an artist), and they both repeated the same mantra:
"You get into trouble when you mix success/fame with being bitter at the church. Avoid the bitterness."
Amen.
I love the church and am glad to be a part of it. The phrase "organized religion" has been eating at me lately, because it implies that church or churches were organized by men and, obviously, a failed attempt to organize this spiritual thing called faith. Well, that would be true if the church were formed by men. But a simple reading of the New Testament (and many parts of the Old, too) will reveal that it was the Man Jesus Who started/orchestrated/commanded/created/organized the church, and He is God, so the concept of church being a man-made thing is really false, isn't it? That fact that it's being run and managed by human beings at this time certainly doesn't escape God's attention, nor His mind when He founded the church. Just like marriage or family, this mess we called life can be so fun. Getting uptight about things is a free choice one can make, but doesn't laughter sound better?
Sigh.
Sometimes interacting with others is hard work, but relationships are so cool. Besides, they're the only thing we can take with us after death, aren't they?
