Friday, January 11, 2008
God Save Us From Ourselves
Look at this picture. What do you think these people are praying for? Maybe some more people in the pews? I know I would be in a situation like this.Note how only two of them are sitting even remotely close to each other, and so far back from the pulpit as to allow the words to pass over their head unnoticed. You can almost feel the need for community and relationship in that picture. With a picture like that, you have just got to love this congregation's
efforts to build the flock.
The telltale pause after you answer the phone usually means you’re about to hear a fuzzy, pre-recorded message offering unbeatable deals on satellite TV or trumpeting the virtues of a political candidate.And to think, God went to all the trouble to INCARNATE and die for us when He could have just phoned it in. Silly God.
But for about 800 people every day in West Virginia, the message — delivered in a warm, friendly voice — offers a different deal: salvation.
“We want to tell you how you can have heaven and know it, and cause true revival in America," the voice says.
The 90-second message gives Bible quotes and an invitation to pray, and concludes: “God bless you is my prayer." You can also leave a message after the beep.
I trust the absurdity to this is sufficient that I need say nothing else.
This gives whole new dimension to the idea of total depravity.
Excuse me, I have a lot of praying to do.
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