So I was driving to King Soopers to get my time sheet faxed into school and I was listening to my ipod of course and Jay Z "run this town" came on and it reminded me of this past weekend and this pastor guy who was going through all these artists and talked about how they were demanding to be worshiped and how they were showing people to go against God by simple hand signals, shirts, and lyrics. And people dont notice and do start to worship them in ways they should only worship God. At least thats what I got from him. I could be completely wrong but I just want to say I think its crap. The things he said made sense yes but for him to want you to stop listening to peoples music because of these things is ridiculous to me.
People put all this judgement on others just because they arent Christain, Mormon, Cathlic enough its all crap. God doesnt judge people and thats what he teachs you and when you sit back and say things like you arent living Godly because you listen to bad music or you cuss or dont go to church. You are doing excatly what God tells you not to do. Everyone can worship in their own way. If I choice not to go to church but still love God and read my Bible then Im living Godly enough for the pact between God and I. It might not be Godly enough for you but what is enough for you doesnt actually matter! If my pact with God is being met on both ends of our relationship then I will get into Heaven just the same as you will.
I will never understand how people say God teaches us not to pass judgement and yet you find out I havent been to church in months and Im no longer Godly in your eyes if He is teaching you to not judge and yet you go and do it, but yet Im unGodly? How is that possible?
I just want to say sorry for this rant on this. I didnt want it to turn into this but it is what it is. Im so tired of people telling me that Im not being a good Christain because I havent been to church in months. I know the promise I made to God and I know the promise he made to me and I am living up to that promise just fine and he knows that. But I defend myself here for the last time. I havent gone to church because Im looking for something to keep me interested like my old church and if its anything else then that I will op out and never go again so Id rather wait until its right for me. And if people cant understand that then I dont need you around to pass unrightful judgement on me when you have no right and if you were so Godly yourself you wouldnt be judging anyways.
Alright Im done. Sorry again for this rant but Im done with defending myself when it comes to how Christain I am and what I believe.
If you cant understand that then Ill see you in heaven when we both get there.
So true Christine! I mean, somedays I feel like I'm the least person to talk about religion or faith because I have my questions but I was raised going to church every Saturday. Morning & Afternoon. We were great 7th Day Adventists. And then around age ten I was introduced to the Catholic church when we started living with my biological dad...with him we were not the greatest Catholics lol cus' Catholics slack A LOT but when we moved to Las Vegas (when I started h.s.) I started going to the Adventist Church with my aunts again & man, were they a bit of a bother with all there rules. One time, one of the afternoon services was all about how "worldly" things are no good to us. The pastor at that church didnt want people going to the movies, going to parties/let alone dancing, listening to "worldly" music, or simply doing anything that wasn't "christian-like". If you were going to listen to music there's a wide selection of religious music. I ofcourse didnt follow rules because I just used to go to church cus' I genuinely enjoyed it & hanging out with people my age who didnt expect me to be doing things I really wasnt up for but I must say Adventists are a little too strict for my taste. Not as strict as my apostolic friends are but none the less, strict. And well, on that one service, the pastor brought up how Disney movies were bad! he went on and on as to how they are not something parents should let their kids watch & seriously made me mad. I wanted to stand up & interrupt his little speech but ofcourse I didnt. And well before I make this any longer, bottom line is that it's easy for others to criticize or say how things are but people have their own way of doing things and keeping faith. Like with the whole going to church, it's like really, what about the people who or sick in bed and cant make it to church? and even if they are excused than why can't I be? Plus, my personal experience usually at church is people only go to gossip half of the time and put up a front. Gets on my last nerve. Pure hypocrisy.
ReplyDeleteExactly! I loved the church I went to I didnt get involved in the people there I honestly didnt go to make friends I went to hear the word of God and it was never preachy. They did skits and sang great songs I loved it and it served its perpose for me. But then hanging out with people who try to make me feel bad because I havent found a church out here to go to. Or Im not living Godly enough because I listen to unholy music but I listen to it all I have a bunch of Christain music on my ipod too but Im not willing to only listen to that. And honestly I believe EVERYTHING is created by God the good and the bad its just a matter of control yourself to give into all the bad he has created as well. But if you are looking for a church and move back to Vegas I can recommend my church its awesome and I dont think they have ever told us what we cant do or mainstream things we shouldnt listen to or be a part of. Its all personal decisions really. (And the pastor I was talking about wasnt at our church it was a dvd we were watching.)
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